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This book explores the links between food and democracy.℗ℓ It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a practical ℓ́ℓhow-toℓ́ℓ approach to using democratic processes to regain control of the food we eat. It also highlights what food democracy looks like on the ground and how individuals, communities and societies can be empowered to access, cook and eat healthy food in ways that are sustainable. Food democracy, as a concept, is a social movement based on the idea that people can and should be able to actively participate in shaping the food system rather than being passive spectators.℗ℓ The book is useful for university and advanced TAFE courses that cover topics examining food in health sciences, social sciences and other areas of study. It is also relevant to health practitioners, nutritionists, food advocates, policy makers and others with a keen interest in exploring an alternative to the industrial food system known as ℓ́ℓBig Food.ℓ́ℓ.

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated. This book reviews and assesses recent initiatives on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. In theoretical terms it draws on and advances two key concepts, namely, place (particularly embeddedness in local economic networks and communities) and governance (particularly in addressing sustainability concerns in an inclusive and socially just manner). Empirically, the book examines a diverse set of SFSCs such as small-scale entrepreneurship, farmers' markets, community supported agriculture and grassroots and solidarity networks. The main examples discussed are from Europe and North America, but the issues are applicable in a global context. The book is of interest to advanced students, researchers and professionals in food studies, sociology, geography, planning, politics and environmental studies.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND FOOD REMITTANCES -- INTERNAL MIGRATION AND FOOD REMITTANCES -- COMPARING RURAL!URBAN AND URBAN!URBAN FOOD REMITTANCES -- FREQUENCY AND TYPES OF FOOD REMITTING -- FOOD REMITTERS IN RURAL AREAS -- CASE STUDY ONE. FOOD REMITTING IN A STATE OF CRISIS: ZIMBABWE -- CASE STUDY TWO. RECIPROCAL URBAN!RURAL REMITTING: NAMIBIA -- CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES -- Back cover.

Food safety, as legislative demands are clearly ask, is not compulsory just for food industry but is regarding all entrepreneurs that are a part of food chain, from primary food producers like farms, to consumer as final step. The prerequistite programs for primary food producers are helping them to implement a simple and practical HACCP system and it will make them more competitive on the market.

Innovative local agrifood governance -- The rise of municipal food movements / Kevin Morgan, Raychel Santo -- Grassroots responsible innovation initiatives in SFSC / Cristina Grasseni -- Food localization and agency : the cases of Regionalwert AG and Luzernenhof in Freiburg, Germany / Lena Partzsch -- Local agrifood systems -- The long and the short of it : motivations and realities for food hub actors in Ontario, Canada / Alison Blay-Palmer, Erin Nelson, Phil Mount, Mike Nagy -- "New" micro agrofood initiatives in crisis-hit Greece and beyond : a promising alternative or business as usual? / Sophia Skordili -- Synergies between localized agri-food systems and short supply chains for geographical indications in Italy / Filippo Arfini, Maria Cecilia Mancini -- Cooperation among small feta cheese dairies as a local territorial development strategy in Thessaly, Greece / Theodosia Anthopoulou, Dimitris Goussios Alternative Agrifood Market Channels -- The fairness of alternative food retailers in the Netherlands / Agni Kalfagianni -- Social justice on the market place : the renewal of peri-urban open-air food markets around Montpellier, France / Coline Perrin, Elodie Valette, Claire Cerdan -- Protection of a 'place': Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Germany / Birgit Peuker

Cover -- Title Page -- Other Books in the At Issue Series -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Food Security? -- 2. Achieving a World with Zero Hunger -- 3. A Food-Secure Africa -- 4. What Are Food Deserts? -- 5. America's Food Deserts -- 6. The Real Problem with Food Deserts -- 7. The Native American Connection to Food Deserts -- 8. The Tax on Junk Food -- 9. Climate Change and Food Insecurity -- 10. World Hunger Is Increasing -- 11. The Import Impact on Food Security -- 12. East Africa's Food Crisis -- 13. The Price of a Healthy Diet -- 14. Are GMOs the Key? -- 15. Trade Wars and the American Farmer -- 16. Fighting Food Insecurity -- 17. Support for Food Insecure Children -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Multiple regression techniques are employed to examine the impacts of domestic food pricing policy, food aid, and food imports on domestic food production in sub-Saharan Africa. It is found that agricultural input factors: fertilizers, arable lands devoted to domestic cereal production and the general productivity of the land under cultivation, exert the most significant impacts on domestic food production. On the other hand, the policy variables of interest: price control, food aid and food importation, were found to exert insignificant impacts. A major implication of these findings is that, in the short run, African governments may do well to concentrate their efforts in improving, enriching and expanding the arable lands devoted to domestic food production, other things being equal. Over the long term, innovative manpower development programs, especially those relating to women, and less dependence on the vagaries of climatic conditions, on food aid and food imports may become essential. In addition, African governments need to support their farmers with price incentives rather than price control.