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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global Market
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:23:28 -0700


Worldwatch Paper #163: Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global
Market
by Worldwatch Institute on November 1, 2002
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/827

November 2002
Brian Halweil
ISBN: 1-878071-66-1
83 pages
Print Version $9.95 Add to Cart

Everyone, everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Encouraged
by food processing innovations, cheap oil, and subsidies, since 1961 the
value of global trade in food has tripled and the tonnage of food shipped
between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In
the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles
from farm to plate, as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980.

For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it
often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while
consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding
the pleasures of face-to-face interactions around food, and compromising
food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to
weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local foods movement.
>From peanut butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and
rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food
businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are
propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor
nations, and return fresh, delicious and wholesome food to cities.
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* Summary
* Entering the Foodshed
* The Transcontinental Lettuce
* The Wal-Mart Effect
* Making Food Deserts Bloom
* Farmers as Entrepreneurs
* Taking Back the Market
* Rebuilding the Local Foodshed
* The Personal Case for Eating Local
* Appendix
* Notes
* Index
* Figure 1: Value of World Agricultural Trade, 1961-2000
* Figure 2: Volume of World Agricultural Trade, 1961-2000
* Figure 3A: Local Versus Imported Ingredients: Iowa
* Figure 3B: Local Versus Imported Ingredients: England
* Figure 4: Seasonal Availability of a Selection of British Apples
* Box 1: Concentration in Various Layers of Agribusiness
* Box 2: Farming the Cities
* Box 3: Fair Trade: Supporting the Local From Far Away
* Box 4: Examples of Local Food Policy Councils and Their Achievements
* Box 5: How To Keep a City Fed
* Box 6: National and International Policy Changes To Help Rebuild
Local Foodsheds
* Box 7: What Individuals Can Do





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