"Cultivating Carrots and Community: Local Organic Food and Sustainable Consumption"
This paper examines the social implications of sustainable consumption through an empirical study of a local organic food initiative.
This paper examines the social implications of sustainable consumption through an empirical study of a local organic food initiative.
This article aims to disclose the nature and underlying causes of the recent food crises focusing on both conjunctural and structural factors; to analyze the socio-economic and geopolitical impacts of food price increases; to identify the possible strategies to minimize the trade-off between the increase of agricultural production and the sustainable use of natural resources.
Using the Central Coast of California as a case study, this article argues that a nexus of ambitious growers and a growing state agricultural bureaucracy worked to create a “brand name” and teach cultivation approaches with increased production and expanded markets. But these same actors also made efforts to keep the long-term health of the industry and the community in mind.