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Introducing Agroecology and Food Systems Transitions
From: Growing and Eating Sustainably
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This chapter outlines the critical food supply issues associated with Covid-19 that made headlines daily across the globe and highlighted the vulnerabilities of the modern food system. The industrial contemporary global food system is described and the authors ask if it is sustainable or resilient. Agroecology, or the design and management of agrifood systems according to ecological and social justice principles, is described as emerging to respond to the mounting problems resulting from an increasingly globalized and industrialized agri-food system.
Contributors
Dana James
Dana James is a PhD candidate, Vanier Scholar, and Public Scholar in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research explores agroecological farming and participation in agrarian social movements in Brazil.Evan Bowness is an environmental sociologist and urban political ecologist, UBC Public Scholar and PhD candidate at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.