Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems

<p>This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic cultural ecological institutional legal and policy aspects of regenerative food practices.</p><p></p><p>The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges related to the ways we grow distribute access eat and dispose of food. Yet there are stories of hope and opportunities for radical change towards food systems that enhance the ability of living things to co-evolve. Given this activities and imaginaries looking to improve rather than just sustain communities and ecosystems are needed as are fresh perspectives and new terminology. The <em>Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems</em> addresses this need. The chapters cover diverse practices geographies scales and entry-points. They focus not only on the core requirements to deliver sustainable agriculture and food supply but go beyond this to think about how these can also actively participate with social-ecological systems. The book is presented in an accessible way with reflection questions meant to spark discussion and debate on how to transition to safe just and healthy food systems. Taken together the chapters in this handbook highlight the consequences of current food practices and showcase the multiple ways that people are doing food differently.</p><p></p><p>The <em>Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems</em> is essential reading for students and scholars interested in food systems governance and practices agroecology rural sociology and socio-environmental studies.</p><p></p>