Are local food and the local food movement taking us where we want to go? Or are we hitching our wagons to the wrong stars?

摘要: Much is being made of local food. It at once a social movement, diet, and an economic strategy—a popular solution—to global food system in great distress. Yet, despite its popularity or perhaps because it, (especially the US) also something chimera if not tool status quo. This paper reflects on contrasts aspects current rhetoric with Dalhberg’s notion regenerative system. identifies three problematic emphases—the locavore emphasis, Wal-Mart Pollan emphasis—and argues that they are shifting (as concept movement) away from deeper concerns equity, citizenship, place-building, sustainability. suggested activists advocates might consider use multiple methodologies forms expression to explore integration reintegration into diverse redundant place-based practice. A short case study low-income, urban neighborhood Lansing, Michigan, illustrates value contextual analysis for more fully enabling movement