Stand Together or Starve Alone

Unity and Chaos in the U.S. Food Movement

Mark Winne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-1828-3 (ISBN)

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The United States—one of the world's wealthiest and resource-richest nations—has multiple food-related problems: declining food quality due to industrialization of its production, obesity across all age groups, and a surprisingly large number of households suffering from food insecurity. These issues threaten to shorten the lives of many and significantly reduce the quality of life for millions of others. This book explores the root causes of food-related problems in the 20th and 21st centuries and explains why collective impact—the social form of working together for a common goal—needs to be employed to reach a successful resolution to hunger, obesity, and the challenges of the industrial food system.

Authored by Mark Winne, a 45-year food activist, the book begins with background information about the evolution of the U.S. food movement since the 1960s that documents its incredible growth and variety of interests, organizations, and sectors. The subsequent sections demonstrate how these divergent interests have created a lack of unity and deterred real change and improvement. Through examples from specific cities and states as well as a discussion of group dynamics and coalition-building methods, readers come away with an understanding of a complicated topic and grasp the potential of a number of strategies for creating more cohesion within the food movement—and realizing meaningful improvements in our food system for current and future generations.

Mark Winne is senior advisor to the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is cofounder of the Community Food Security Coalition, where he also worked as the Food Policy Council Program Director.

Foreword by Anne Palmer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 What's at Stake?
Chapter 2 Growth Brings Challenges
Chapter 3 Food Movement Divisions
Chapter 4 Communication
Chapter 5 Funding the Food Movement
Chapter 6 Moving toward Unity
Chapter 7 Strategies for Unifying: Building a Bigger Tent That Won't Fall Down
Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Vorwort	Anne Palmer
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-1828-3 / 9798765118283
Zustand	Neuware