Urban Food Production for Ecosocialism
Cultivating the City
- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book explores the critical role of urban food production in strengthening communities and in building ecosocialism. It integrates theory and practice, drawing on several local case studies from seven countries across four continents: China, Cuba, Ghana, Italy, Tanzania, the UK, and the US.
Research shows that the term "urban agriculture" overstates the limited food-growing potential in cities due to a shortage of land required for growing grains, the basic human food staple. For this reason, the book suggests "urban cultivation" as an appropriate term which indicates social and political progress achieved through combined labours of urbanites to produce food. It examines how these collaborative food-growing efforts help raise local social capital, foster community organisation, and create ecological awareness in order to promote urban food production while also ensuring environmental sustainability. This book illustrates how urban cultivation constitutes a potentially important aspect of urban ecosystems, as well as offers solutions to current environmental problems. It recentres attention to the global South and debunks Eurocentric narratives, challenging capitalist commercial food-growing regimes and encouraging ecosocialist food-growing practices.
Written in an accessible style, this book is recommended reading about an emergent issue which will interest students and scholars of environmental studies, geography, sociology, urban studies, politics, and economics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Urban agriculture and ecosocialism
- 2 Cities and food production
- 3 The changing character of the city-food nexus
- 4 The city as ecosystem and environment
- 5 Urban food growing and social sustainability
- 6 Ecosocial challenges and impacts of urban food production
- 7 Local contingencies of urban cultivation
- 8 Cultivating the city for ecosocialism
- Index