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America has a perplexing, multifaceted problem that combines hunger, obesity, and unhealthy food. This book examines how this situation was created and shows how people working together can resolve this longstanding issue. The United States—one of the world's wealthiest and resource-richest nations—has multiple food-related problems: declining food quality due to industrialization of its production, obesity across all age groups, and a surprisingly large number of households suffering from food insecurity. These issues threaten to shorten the lives of many and significantly reduce the quality of life for millions of others. This book explores the root causes of food-related problems in the 20th and 21st centuries and explains why collective impact—the social form of working together for a common goal—is the method that needs to be employed to reach a successful resolution to hunger, obesity, and the challenges of the industrial food system. Authored by Mark Winne, a 45-year food activist, the book begins with background information about the evolution of the U.S. food movement since the 1960s that documents its incredible growth and variety of interests, organizations, and sectors. The subsequent sections demonstrate how these divergent interests have created a lack of unity and constitute a deterrent to achieving real change and improvement. Through examples from specific cities and states as well as a discussion of group dynamics and coalition-building methods, readers will come away with an understanding of a complicated topic and grasp the potential of a number of strategies for creating more cohesion within the food movement—and realizing meaningful improvements in our food system for current and future generations.
Look at any list of America's top foodie cities and you probably won't find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food movement. Healthy, sustainable fare is changing communities across this country, revitalizing towns that have been ravaged by disappearing industries and decades of inequity. What sparked this revolution? To find out, Mark Winne travelled to seven cities not usually considered revolutionary. He broke bread with brew masters and city council members, farmers and philanthropists, toured start-up incubators and homeless shelters. What he discovered was remarkable, even inspiring. In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, once a company steel town, investment in the arts has created a robust new market for local restaurateurs. In Alexandria, Louisiana, "one-stop shopping" food banks help clients apply for health insurance along with SNAP benefits. In Jacksonville, Florida, aeroponics are bringing fresh produce to a food desert. Over the course of his travels, Winne experienced the power of individuals to transform food and the power of food to transform communities. The cities of Food Town, USA remind us that innovation is ripening all across the country, especially in the most unlikely places.
In "Closing the Food Gap," food activist and journalist Mark Winne
poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations
around food: What about those people who are not financially able
to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And
in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we
do to make healthier foods available for everyone?
In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the
global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the
world fed. Through the use of factory "farms," genetic engineering,
and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust
in technology and ask consumers to put our trust in them. However,
a look behind the curtain reveals practices that put our soil,
water, and health at risk. What are the alternatives? And can they
too feed the world?
People have always grown food in urban spaces - on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks - but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael Hanson and urban farmer Edwin Marty document twelve successful urban farm programs, from an alternative school for girls in Detroit, to a backyard food swap in New Orleans, to a restaurant supply garden on a rooftop in Brooklyn. Each beautifully illustrated essay offers practical advice for budding farmers, such as composting and keeping livestock in the city, decontaminating toxic soil, even changing zoning laws.
Agribusiness giants don't want you to know--or care--if the food
you eat is genetically modified, factory farmed, or grown with
toxic chemicals. But the rapidly growing alternative food movement
is resisting these practices and helping people reclaim their
connections to their food. A forty-year veteran of this movement,
Mark Winne introduces us to innovative "local doers" defying
industrial agribusiness and leading the charge to bring nutritious,
sustainable, and affordable food to all. All across the country,
these leaders are turning urban wastelands into farms, creating
local dairy collectives, preserving farmland, bringing food
education to children and adults in diabetes-prone neighborhoods,
promoting food democracy, and empowering communities. Winne's hope
is that all of these efforts, scaled up and adopted more widely,
will ultimately allow the alternative food system to dethrone the
industrial--and he challenges us to go beyond eating local to
become part of a larger solution, demanding a system that sustains
body and soul.
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