Dissertations / Theses: 'Food geography'

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Cameron, Caitlin. "Geography of urban food access : exploring potential causes of food deserts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73811.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86).
We believe we understand food deserts, but we do not. In the last decade the phenomenon of food deserts has been often discussed, and many solutions are proposed to alleviate food access issues in American cities. However, I argue that the efficacy of these solutions is questionable until the causes of urban food deserts are better understood. Beyond the economics of retail grocery exist systemic, physical factors which contribute to the gaps in food access. Although grocery retailers have different models and consider varying factors when choosing where to locate, it is true that the built environment plays a part in whether a city is hospitable or hostile to grocery stores, especially of the types that sell healthy, fresh food.
by Caitlin Cameron.
M.C.P.

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Spielman, Kimberly. "Food Supply Chains and Food-Miles: An Analysis for Selected Conventional, Non-local Organic and Other-Alternative Foods Sold in Missoula, Montana." The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-10252007-113605/.

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The spatial patterns of the conventional food supply chain have played a significant role in increasing the amount of miles food travels before being consumed. As a result, this has increased the amount of energy that is required to transport food from the farm to the table. The food supply chain links production to consumption. However, as food-miles increase, this link becomes obscure. The food supply chain can be described as having two very distinct parts: the conventional food supply chain and the alternative food supply chain. Business consolidation, and large-scale production, processing, distribution and retail characterize the conventional food supply chain. As a result of such economies of scale, the conventional chain is also characterized by standardization of knowledge. The alternative chain, on the other hand, is characterized by direct sales, small-scale production, processing and distribution and by a more transparent market. Certified organic foods began as an alternative to conventional foods. However, certified organic foods have increasingly been criticized for adopting similar business practices as the conventional system and thus travel the same lengths, if not further, than conventional foods. This study is a place-based approach that compares the food-miles and subsequent energy use of the two food supply chainsconventional and alternativethat provide food to retail grocery stores in Missoula, Montana. Energy use is estimated in gallons of diesel and the subsequent byproduct, or emissions, of transportation is estimated in pounds of carbon dioxide. Four of the highest selling retail grocery products; apples, bread, ground beef and milk, are classified into three different categories: conventional, non-local organic and other-alternative. The food-miles, subsequent fuel usage and emissions are also estimated for each of the four products. The study shows a remarkable lack of transparency in the conventional food supply chain and relatively low food-miles, fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions for the other-alternative products.

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Butrico, Gina Marie. "Food Security and Identity: Iceland." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374943947.

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Moges, Ashenafi. "Food shortages in Harerge region of Ethiopia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304979.

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Thompson, Claire Pilar. "Experiences of the food environment and the role of the 'routine' in producing food practices : an ethnography of Sandwell residents." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/3178.

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Despite a sustained academic interest in food environments and their impact upon dietary practices, relatively little is known about the ways in which individuals interact with the food environment. The multiple and complex factors that influence food choices are difficult to investigate, especially in the family setting where individual and collective practices intersect. This thesis investigates how people perform food practices and unpacks how specific contexts shape, promote and constrain food behaviours. The case study through which this is examined is that of the food practices of 26 residents of Sandwell, a uniformly deprived metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. Through ethnographically collecting accounts and observations of how residents performed food practices, both in the home and while shopping for food, highly routinized behaviours were revealed. The notion of routinized decision making, as it appears in social science research, is developed and adapted to incorporate descriptions of general approaches to routine food behaviours. The novel concept of routines-of-practice is employed to characterise these routines in terms of agency, attitudes towards individualism, and reliance on environmental and contextual cues. Food shopping practices are positioned, to an extent, as acts of consumerism performed in the pervasive consumption environment of the supermarket. The home, by contrast, was depicted as a site of both privacy and responsibility. The ways in which responsibility was interpreted and enacted dictated how family meals and routine home food behaviours were structured. By looking at food practices in terms of repetitive, context specific and often uncritical behaviours, this thesis highlights the importance of place in moulding food practices. Understanding how people interact and interpret their environment has been underestimated in diet-related health policy and promotion. This thesis specifically examines the way food practices are influenced by environment and context at the micro level.

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Stutter, Natalia. "The social life of street food : exploring the social sustainability of street food in Hanoi, Vietnam." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/102982/.

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This research explores the social life of street food in Hanoi, Vietnam, using a conceptual framework of social sustainability. Although the economic benefits of street vending are widely recognised, little attention has previously been paid to the social aspects. Focusing specifically on the selling of street food through the lens of social sustainability, this research develops a conceptual framework from the literature. The framework comprised eight key themes: social justice, quality of life and well-being, participation, safety and security, social interactions and social networks, social inclusion, sense of place and cultural heritage and was applied empirically to the street food environment of Hanoi. The themes used in the framework were identified as the most pertinent in the literature and were grouped under three broad ideas – social justice, social relations and culture – and used to frame the thesis. The application of the social sustainability framework revealed important details about the social life and social function of the street food environment. It highlighted key areas where street food in Hanoi can be shown to contribute to the principles of social sustainability, such as regarding social relations, cultural heritage and sense of place. It also drew attention to areas that require improvement, including some aspects of social justice, for example, participation, safety and security and food hygiene. The findings of this research suggest the challenges identified that prevent the social sustainability of street food in Hanoi, often manifested themselves through the inequalities experienced between the different types of street food vendors, specifically itinerant or migrant vendors compared to local vendors with fixed selling locations. The thesis argues that the approach adopted in the research offers a useful tool for understanding the social functions of street vending which can be applied and adapted to examine the social sustainability of street food vending in other economic and political contexts.

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Chen, Xiang. "Bringing Time into Measure of Food Access: Place vs. People." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1404313043.

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Watson, David. "Well-being in community food organisations : responding to alienation in the food system." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19118/.

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Community food organisations are part of a growing interest in local and alternative forms of food, which have widely been understood as a response to the failings of the dominant food system. Despite significant academic interest, few studies have sought to understand these alternatives from the perspective of well-being, although they are grounded in claims for a better food system. In this thesis I address this gap. In order to do so I draw on Marx’s concept of alienation as the basis for understanding how well-being is constituted in four community food organisations in the East of England. In using a Marxist approach to well-being I seek to overcome the limitations of narrow, individualised conceptions of well-being that have predominated a resurgent discourse around well-being. Renewed interest in well-being and alternative food systems can be seen as reactions to the dominant logic of capital, which has prioritised economic growth and profit at the expense of human and planetary well-being. However, these potentially critical discourses have proved vulnerable to re-absorption by capital. I use Marx’s concept of alienation to bring together critique of capitalism with an understanding of community food organisations as alternative spaces of production, which enhance well-being. Both classical and recent Marxian approaches have tended to emphasize critique, with little attention to the subjective experience of capitalism or alternatives to it. Drawing on alienation to inform a Marxian approach to well-being I unite structural critique with subjective experience. I use ethnographic and qualitative methods to document participation in community food organisations as an alternative, de-alienated experience. The data generated points to the important role these spaces can play in supporting well-being. It underlines how they facilitate social interaction, an active relationship with nature, and provide an opportunity for participants to realise a sense of agency and engage in meaningful work.

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Statham, Sara. "Inuit food security: vulnerability of the traditional food system to climatic extremes during winter 2010/2011 in Iqaluit, Nunavut." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110734.

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Arctic climate change is an influential food security determinant because varying environmental conditions affect the ability of Inuit to harvest traditional food, thus impacting food security. This case study assesses how climatic extremes during winter 2010/2011 affected the vulnerability of the traditional food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut. This winter was statistically anomalous in terms of environmental conditions throughout the Canadian Arctic, which manifested locally via warmer temperatures and poorer sea ice conditions. The aim of this thesis is to determine whether these conditions impacted the procurement of traditional food and whether this caused food insecurity amongst vulnerable residents at the community level. The main objective is to identify and characterize locally relevant extreme climatic conditions during winter 2010/2011 (exposure), their subsequent effects on Iqaluit's traditional food system with a focus on public housing residents (sensitivity) and coping strategies used for dealing with food-related stresses (adaptive capacity). This mixed-methods approach involves analysis of instrumental records, interviews with local hunters and key informants, as well as surveys with public housing residents. Results show increased environmental stresses to the traditional food system compared to previous years, which negatively impacted hunters' harvests and residents' food supplies. Coping strategies alleviated some stresses, but resilience was particularly impeded for financially insecure households reliant on income support. Overall, the traditional food system was not as vulnerable to climatic extremes as anticipated, as broader social determinants had a greater influence on Inuit food security. However, when poor socioeconomic conditions, such as those associated with public housing, are coupled with poor environmental conditions, such as those experienced during winter 2010/2011, the vulnerability of the traditional food system is even further exacerbated.
Le changement climatique dans l'Arctique est un facteur déterminant de la sécurité alimentaire des Inuits. En effet, il affecte leur capacité à se procurer les nourritures traditionnelles, fragilisant ainsi leur sécurité alimentaire. Cette étude de cas évalue dans quelle mesure les conditions climatiques changeantes durant l'hiver 2010/2011 ont affecté la vulnérabilité du système alimentaire traditionnel à Iqaluit, Nunavut. Selon les statistiques, les conditions environnementales de cet hiver ont été anormales à travers l'ensemble de l'Arctique Canadien, ce qui, à l'échelle locale, s'est traduit par des températures plus chaudes et de mauvaises conditions des glaces. Le but de cette thèse est de déterminer si ces conditions climatiques ont affectés la récolte de nourritures traditionnelles, à l'échelle de la communauté, et si cela a causé de l'insécurité alimentaire chez les résidents les plus vulnérables. L'objectif principal est d'identifier et de caractériser les conditions climatiques extrêmes à l'échelle locale durant l'hiver 2010/2011 (exposition), leurs conséquences sur le système alimentaire traditionnel d'Iqaluit avec une attention particulière aux résidents de logements publics (sensibilité) et aux stratégies d'adaptation utilisées pour faire face aux contraintes alimentaires (capacité d'adaptation). Cette méthodologie mixte de recherche implique l'analyse des données climatiques, des entrevues avec des chasseurs locaux et des informateurs clés, de même que des sondages avec des résidents des logements publics. Comparativement aux années précédentes, les résultats montrent un accroissement des pressions sur le système alimentaire traditionnel, ce qui affecte négativement la récolte des chasseurs et l'approvisionnement des résidents. Bien que les stratégies d'adaptation atténuent certaines de ces contraintes, la capacité de résilience des ménages financièrement précaires, qui dépendent d'un soutien au revenu, a été particulièrement affectée. De manière générale, le système alimentaire traditionnel n'a pas été aussi vulnérable aux conditions climatiques extrêmes qu'anticipées, cela en raison de conditions socio-économiques plus larges qui ont eu une plus grande influence sur la sécurité alimentaire des Inuits. Toutefois, lorsque des conditions économiques précaires, notamment celles associées au logement public, sont jumelées avec de mauvaises conditions climatiques, comme celles vécues durant l'hiver 2010/2011, la vulnérabilité du système alimentaire traditionnel est exacerbée.

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Stein, Dana Beth. "Food Deserts' and 'Food Swamps' in Hillsborough County, Florida: Unequal Access to Supermarkets and Fast-Food Restaurants." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3366.

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Research has shown that the suburbanization of supermarkets has created `food deserts', defined as areas where socially disadvantaged individuals lack access to nutritious food outlets. Additionally, the growing presence of fast-food restaurants has created `food swamps', or areas where socially disadvantaged individuals encounter an overabundance of unhealthy food outlets. While previous studies have analyzed either `food deserts' or `food swamps' using conventional statistical techniques, a more comprehensive approach that includes samples of both healthy and unhealthy entities and considers the variety of available food options is necessary to improve our understanding of the local food environment and related disparities. This thesis addresses several limitations associated with previous geographic research on the built food environment through a case study that examines socio-demographic inequities in access to supermarkets and fast-food restaurants in Hillsborough County, Florida-- an urban area that has been severely affected by the obesity and food crisis plaguing the nation. An important goal is to examine the spatial and statistical association between socioeconomic deprivation and potential access to all supermarkets, healthiest supermarkets, all fast-food restaurants, and unhealthiest fast-food restaurants, respectively. This study utilizes precise locations of food retailers based on government codes, U.S. Census data, GIS-based network analysis, and a combination of conventional statistical measures and exploratory spatial analytical techniques. Specifically, local indicators of spatial association (LISA) are used to visualize how the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and accessibility to food outlets varies geographically within the county, and identify the locations of food deserts and food swamps based on the statistical significance of spatial correlations. Conventional statistical measures indicate that socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods are significantly less accessible to the healthiest supermarkets and more accessible to all fast-food restaurants. LISA significance maps reveal that food deserts are located in suburban and rural regions, food swamps are located closer to the urban center, and both are found along major highways in Hillsborough County. Logistic regression results show that race and ethnicity play an undeniably pervasive role in explaining the presence and location of both food deserts and food swamps. This research demonstrates the need to explore local variations in statistical relationships relevant to the study of the built food environment, and highlights the need to consider both healthy and unhealthy food outlets in geographic research and public policy initiatives that aim to address the obesity crisis.

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Chi, Heng-Chang. "Transnational food geography and culinary culture in Thai restaurants of Taiwan." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531199.

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Hasnain, Saher. "Food environments in Islamabad, Pakistan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:10da5535-3e49-4a49-a3a9-908075ec886e.

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This dissertation examines how concerns about food system transformations affect how middle class consumers in Islamabad, Pakistan, perceive and approach food consumption in their everyday lives. The dissertation is situated in the context of risky food environments and food fears resulting from intensified, industrialised, and increasingly lengthened global food systems. Working within food geography and food environments paradigms, this dissertation explores how the transformation of food systems is associated with increasing anxiety about food security and safety for middle class urban consumers in Islamabad. Qualitative data gathered from semi-structured interviews and participant observation is used to illustrate the effects external influences, such as energy scarcity and violent events, have on everyday food environments. The dissertation examines the ways in which conceptualisations of 'good food', and trust relationships are negotiated in these dynamic food environments. The intensely geographical nature of these food environments and food systems, and the role of place-specific contexts on perceptions and adaptations related to food anxieties are emphasised. Situated in literatures on food anxiety and food consumption emerging from geography, food studies, and anthropology, this dissertation challenges dominant discourses on alternative and ethical consumption in a globalising food system. The results of this research not only contribute to literature on South Asia, but also contribute to consumption practices of a burgeoning middle class in developing countries.

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Eckert, Jeanette Elizabeth. "Food Systems, Planning and Quantifying Access: How Urban Planning Can Strengthen Toledo’s Local Food System." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271266072.

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Prajapati, Nikita. "Lost in food translation| Khmer food culture from Cambodia to Long Beach, California." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10147311.

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This thesis research examines changes in food culture as a means of adaptation for Cambodians, who migrated to Long Beach, California after the Cambodian genocide (1975- 1979). This research examines how ?place,? defined as experience and neighborhood, influences the ability or desire to maintain certain cultural food practices of the homeland such as passing down the knowledge to the Cambodian younger generation in order to sustain their cultural heritage. An array of qualitative methods was employed for this thesis research which included participant observation, structured interviews, and semi-structured interviews in both Cambodia and Long Beach. For the older Cambodian generation, adaptation of their food culture has occurred through home gardens, shopping at Asian markets in the Long Beach area, and importing certain dried ingredients from Cambodia. The translation of the Khmer food culture transpires when the Cambodian youth takes an interest and they watch their parent(s) prepare the meals. Overall, their place of residence and the willingness to travel a certain distance to shop were influencing factors for Cambodians in the Long Beach area in terms of what types of meals they prepared which included dishes from Asian influences in the surrounding area.

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Horrocks, Andrew John. "Food-sector SMEs and the environment : knowledge, learning and regulation." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16063.

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Glover, Bailey I. "Measuring and Understanding Food Accessibility in the Tampa Bay Area." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7797.

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In the Tampa Bay region, increasing population and changing demographics have begun to alter the characteristics of established neighborhoods. An increase in suburban growth has triggered a shift in the location and profitability of food establishments in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. Supermarket closures have garnered attention from public health officials who are concerned with the overall availability of fresh food throughout Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Unfortunately, there has been little research surrounding the quality of food sold at establishments in both the Tampa Bay region and abroad. Instead, many geographic studies have chosen to group both fresh and prepared food establishments into a singular category for analyses. While helpful for a generalized understanding of food access overall, these methods do little to convey access to fresh foods which are essential for a balanced diet. This study offers a different perspective from traditional food access studies by categorizing food stores into fresh and prepared categories. For each food category, the Cumulative Opportunity Measure (COM) was first applied to measure food accessibility at the census block group level; a descriptive analysis was then employed to examine the relations between food accessibility and socioeconomic variables. In order to provide a meaningful comparison, these same steps were taken to emulate the results of the combined model (fresh and prepared) that is often utilized in previous studies. Finally, a map displaying the COM ratio of fresh to prepared food by block group was created to highlight areas with disproportionately more fresh (or prepared) food opportunities. Results indicate that rural may be at a disadvantage with respect to fresh food accessibility. Also, a discrepancy between the fresh model and the prepared and combined models, in relation to female headed households, may indicate that food establishment classification has a significant effect on food accessibility. Overall, positive relationships were observed between factors relating to minority status, no GED, room occupancy, public assistance, limited English, poverty, and lack of vehicle ownership for the fresh, prepared, and combined food accessibility models. Finally, the ratio of fresh to prepared food establishments could explain why some populations exhibit higher rates of obesity even when in direct proximity to fresh food opportunities.

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Bao, Yang, and Yang Bao. "The Geography of Urban Food Access: Exploring the Spatial and Socioeconomic Dimensions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624548.

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Adequate access to affordable, healthy food has long been a public health concern and has become a more pressing societal issue following the Great Recession and rising incidents of diet-related diseases. In response, research and government efforts have largely focused on identifying disadvantaged areas with poor food access and formulating policies to improve accessibility. However, the approaches that have been widely relied upon by researchers and practitioners for food access assessment are severely flawed, which may lead to inconsistent research findings or neglect of the needs of under-served/un-served neighborhoods. This dissertation identifies three important aspects of food access for improvement: the appropriate scale/neighborhoods for analysis, the use of food outlets as a proxy for affordable, healthy food; and the assessment method. In particular, three studies are conducted to: (1) examine how varying spatial scales and aggregation methods affect accessibility assessments; (2) explore the role of independent grocers, which have been neglected in previous food access studies as elements of the food landscape that may change the perception of food deserts; and (3) investigate how individual-level food access patterns compare to the widely used, area-based neighborhood measures of expected accessibility. While the dissertation discusses and addresses theoretical challenges in food access, the empirical studies conducted in the Tucson, Arizona metropolitan area contribute to a better understanding of the real-world complexity of food access. The results shed light on some predicaments identified in recent studies and have important policy implications for how best to efficiently and effectively design strategies and initiatives to enhance food-provision access.

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Mert-Cakal, Tezcan. "Community food growing as social innovation for food sustainability : the case of community gardens and community supported agriculture in Wales." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/106341/.

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This thesis is based on research that utilises social innovation theory to examine the role and potential of community gardens and community supported agriculture (CSA) in transitioning toward more sustainable food systems, with a geographical focus on Wales. The research originates from the rationale that there is an urgent need for transforming the current food systems into more sustainable ones, and that community-based socially innovative initiatives may become drivers for such a transformation. The main objective is to demonstrate what is the socially innovative role of community gardens and community supported agriculture in Wales and what is their potential for making a societal change toward food sustainability, thus aiming to contribute to the wider debates on the role of the social economy and its potential for socio-economic transformation. The empirical approach applied is qualitative case studies based on 38 semi-structured interviews and participant observation in four community gardens and four community supported agriculture initiatives. The data is analysed by using ALMOLIN (Alternative Model for Local Innovations) as an innovative analytical tool mapping the dynamics of social innovation and processes of social initiatives. The research intends to contribute to the literature of community gardens and community supported agriculture by examining these initiatives from the social innovation perspective. In addition, it intends to contribute to the social innovation literature with the case of community food growing. A final contribution is addressing the geographical gap in the community food growing literature by focusing on Wales as an under-researched area and using large number of case studies to allow a comparison between its different regions and types of initiatives. The study further makes a range of theoretical and policy recommendations.

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Abubakari, Mohammed Rabiu. "Food Accessibility| The Proximity of Food Sources to Neighborhoods in the Triple Cities of Broome County, New York." Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10282040.

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Issues of food accessibility and food insecurity receive high attention in the United States, due to evidence of disparities in the location and level of accessibility to nutritious food sources amongst neighborhoods of different economic classifications identified in several studies. However, most studies focus on grocery stores or convenience stores without considering other options available for food insecure residents. This research examined the different economic classes of neighborhoods in the Triple Cities of Broome County, New York and their proximity to grocery stores, food pantries and convenience stores, to establish the level of accessibility to food sources for residents of these different neighborhoods using ESRI ArcGIS for spatial analysis and Chi-Square for statistical analysis. The Findings reveal a positive relationship between the location and density of grocery stores, convenience stores and food pantries to low-income populations. Moreover, high-income neighborhoods are more disadvantaged in terms of physical access to food stores by distance. However, there exists an over-concentration of convenience stores in low-income neighborhoods compared to grocery stores and can have a negative impact on their diet choices and expenses on food.

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Chapman, Angela M. "The Neoliberal Economy of Food: Evaluating the Ability of the Local Food System around Athens, Ohio to Address Food Insecurity." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1499444327199405.

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Denison, Shelley M. "Food, Race, and Planning: A Critical Analysis of County Food Action Plans." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494003397106232.

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Williams, Dana M. "Food security and access in Akron, Ohio." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1107371980.

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Christian, Warren J. "Using Geospatial Technologies to Characterize Relationships between Travel Behavior, Food Availability, and Health." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/4.

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Epidemic obesity in the U.S. has prompted exploration of causal factors related to the built environment. Recent research has noted statistical associations between the spatial accessibility of retail food sources, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants, and individual characteristics such as weight, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. These studies typically use residential proximity or neighborhood density to food sources as the measure of accessibility. Assessing food environments in this manner, however, is very limiting. Since most people travel outside of their neighborhood on a daily basis, the retail food sources available to individuals residing in the same area could vary widely. This research developed new techniques for describing food accessibility or food environments based upon individuals’ activity and travel patterns, or their activity spaces. Researchers have previously used travel diaries to study activity and travel behavior, but these are burdensome for participants, and are prone to recall error and other inaccuracies. This study explored use of global positioning system (GPS) to identify participants' activity spaces, and employed a geographic information system (GIS) to assess the retail food sources located within these spaces. This produced ‘activity-based’ measures of individual retail food accessibility that do not rely on areal units, nor require travel diaries. Participants included 121 residents of a census tract in Lexington, Kentucky who agreed to carry GPS trackers for three workdays, and complete surveys regarding weight, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, and diet and food purchasing habits. The types and relative frequencies of food locations within their activity spaces were compared to those within close proximity to the census tract. Dietary and food purchasing habits were subsequently analyzed in relation to activity-based food environment measures. The results of this study demonstrate substantial potential for misclassification bias in food accessibility research based on residential proximity or neighborhood density. Furthermore, this study observed statistically significant relationships between the new activity-based food accessibility measures and some personal characteristics and food-related behaviors. Despite some limitations, the techniques developed in this research show great potential for future research, which should be explored further in a variety of contexts.

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Loomis, Jessa M. "Moveable Feasts: Locating Food Trucks in the Cultural Economy." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/12.

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In this thesis, I consider the emergence of a new generation of food trucks and question their popularity, narration and representation. I examine the economic and cultural discourses that have valorized these food trucks, and pay attention to the everyday material and embodied practices that constitute them. This research is situated in Chicago, where proposed changes to the existing mobile food vending ordinance spurred contentious debates about food safety, regulations, rights to the city and livelihoods. I follow the myriad actors involved in the food truck movement to understand the strategies employed to change the mobile food vending ordinance on behalf of these food trucks. As part of this, I raise questions about what interests are prioritized, and what interests are marginalized especially in light of Chicago’s long history of policing Latino street vendors. I conclude by considering what food trucks can elucidate about the city, the changing economy, and the molding of laboring and consuming subjects.

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Hislop, Rasheed Salaam. "Reaping Equity| A Survey of Food Justice Organizations in the U.S.A." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590830.

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This study surveys organizations working for a more just food system in the United States, deemed Food Justice Organizations (FJOs) at basic day to day operational levels and deeper more complex layers of social, political and economic circumstances both within and among these organizations with a particular emphasis upon race. Through coding and rhetorical analyses a food justice definitional framework is developed through which to observe FJOs. Several trends emerge regarding FJOs including a stronger urban presence/focus, the immense popularity of food production and the predominance of whites in paid/leadership positions which may relate to the struggles or avoidance of race, class or gender dynamics within and among FJOs. Simultaneously, there is no single issue or cause that defines FJOs or the food justice movement on its own but the main issues to which they remain committed to changing, albeit to varying degrees, are market capitalism as well as racial and socio-economic inequality. FJOs must confront major issues in order to progress towards overarching goals and to do so they must continue to enhance and develop growing networks, particularly among those led and comprised mostly of the population(s) they are attempting to serve.

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Hughes, Rebecca Jane. "Exploring the geography of food miles : an example from the UK grocery market." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616294.

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'Food miles' are the distance that edible products are transported from primary producer(s) to end consumer(s). Over the last fifty years global economic changes, technological advances and logistical developments have led to foods being transported longer distances to their final destination. Although the modern food system allows UK retailers to meet consumer demand for high quality, low cost, exotic and out-of-season products, growing concern about the links between food miles and global warming is forcing retailers to reconsider their distribution practices. In a bid to improve their green credentials, all UK multiples are developing ' local' ranges. Locally sourced foods should, by definition, travel shorter distances to stores. This is not always the case however, because local products tend to be transported via mainstream logistics systems, which are highly centralised and circuitous. Asda is the only major UK grocer to have developed a local-specific distribution strategy. The retailer has delegated responsibilities to eleven independently operated local hubs, each one serving as a single point of delivery and consolidation for local suppliers from which their products are distributed to nearby Asda stores for sale. Asda claims that its unique hub system offers an efficient local sourcing solution. However, the associated food miles have yet to be investigated. In order to provide Asda with the means to review its local distribution strategy (as well as to encourage other retailers to adopt similar solutions), this thesis explains how a bespoke Local Food Miles Calculator was developed and utilised to investigate the efficiency of Asda's local distribution strategy (in terms of distances travelled and emissions produced) and to make suggestions as to how it could be improved. Thus, a new method for estimating food miles is presented, along with new techniques for distributing local products to the shelves of major grocery retailers' stores.

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Callear, Diana Louise. "The effect of food subsidies in a rural area of Zimbabwe 1981-82." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332950.

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Hall, William. "(Un)Making the Food Desert: Food, Race, and Redevelopment in Miami's Overtown Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3033.

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In recent years, efforts to transform food environments have played a key role in urban revitalization strategies. On one hand, concerns over urban food deserts have spurred efforts to attract supermarkets to places where access to healthy food is difficult for lower income residents. On the other, the creation of new spaces of consumption, such as trendy restaurants and food retail, has helped cities rebrand low-income communities as cultural destinations of leisure and tourism. In cities around the US, these processes often overlap, converting poorer neighborhoods into places more desirable for the middle-class. My dissertation research examines the social and historical forces that have given rise to these twin processes in Miami’s poorest neighborhood, Overtown, a historically Black community on the cusp of rapidly encroaching gentrification. My project incorporates a mix of methods from urban geography, anthropology, and the emerging geohumanities, including geospatial mapping, historical analysis, participatory observation, and in-depth interviews. In triangulating these methods, I first unearth Overtown’s vibrant food environment during Jim Crow segregation and then trace its decline through urban renewal, expressway construction, and public divestment, focusing particularly on the dismantling of Black food businesses. I also investigate the spatial politics of recent urban agriculture projects and community redevelopment practices, the latter of which aim to remake Overtown as a cultural dining and entertainment district in the image of its former heydays. This research is theoretically informed by and contributes to work on urban foodscapes, urban geographies of race, and African American foodways. Based on my empirical findings, I argue that redevelopment practices in Overtown are undermining networks of social and economic interdependency in the existing foodscape, effectively reproducing the spatial and racial urbicide once delivered by more overt forms of racism. By linking place-based racial histories to the production of inequitable urban food systems, this research reveals the underlying geographies of struggle and dispossession that have shaped the production of both food deserts and gentrifying foodie districts.

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ALNASRALLAH, MOHAMMAD A. "FOOD DESERTS AND MINORITY POPULATION IN AKRON, OHIO." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1352329178.

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Diriba, Getachew. "Famine and food security in Kembatana Hadiya, Ethiopia : a study of household survival strategies." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293659.

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Colebrooke, Laura. "A taste of food insecurity : towards a capacity for eating well." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/104740/.

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This thesis considers food insecurity in Bristol through an analysis of taste. Using a bricolage of ethnographic methods designed to bring the sensory elements of food practices to the fore, I worked with three projects in the city to examine the socio-materialities of food insecurity as they are felt within people’s daily lives. Working with an Emergency Food Aid (EFA) charity, a community bus scheme and a cookery course for socially isolated people, I contribute to geographical understandings of food insecurity by looking in places and attuning to senses, feelings and affects that are otherwise invisible. Inspired by material-semiotics – where nonhumans matter – and including ideas of affect, I move away from a static definition of food insecurity as ‘access to a good diet’ and instead develop ideas of taste, which I define as capacity for eating well. I use capacity to ground a critical analysis of inequality within the social and material relations of embodied life. I use eating well to bring the more-than-human collectivities into the frame, accounting for the care-full socio-materialities at play in food encounters. Importantly, I move beyond an ontology of individual rational agents and a focus on empowered choice as a solution to insecurity. The empirical material shows that practices of good taste are contingent and fragile, shaped by the material-affective conditions of food encounters; that interdependencies rather than individual empowerment enable us to eat well; and that precarious living conditions produce affects that can be decisive factors in whether we eat well or go hungry. Ultimately, this taste-full approach places a critical analysis of food insecurity within the messy entanglements of food practices and opens up new spaces for understanding and tackling the issue.

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Marple, Amanda. "Democratizing University Foodscapes? Student Food Cooperatives and the Neoliberal University." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752427.

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According to a report published in 2015, the National Center for Education estimated that over 20 million students were forecasted to enroll in higher education in the 2016–17 school year, situating American universities as major institutional food retailers. Over the past two decades, corporate food providers have increasingly sought long-term public and private university contracts as a means to expand their reach into lucrative campus food landscapes (foodscapes), replacing in-house services with cheaper, more “efficient, and “productive” dining strategies. Companies such as Sodexo, Aramark, and Bon Appetit control the foodscapes of many university campuses across the United States, creating food environments dominated by corporate interests.

However, at the same time these corporate food service providers have colonized university food terrains, a growing movement of consumers concerned with ethical food sourcing have driven students across the United States to seek alternatives to dominant food sourcing strategies on their campuses. In a context of increased corporate control over their university foodscapes, student across the US have launched campaigns aiming to develop and establish student food cooperatives (SFCs), organizations seeking to assert the availability of sustainable, ethical, and healthy food options on campus in addition to pushing for more student decision-making power within their university food environments (Marsden, 2000).

It is within this context that my thesis aims to explore if and how student food cooperatives are creating new spaces for food sovereignty and if they are democratizing the control over their university food systems through campus based food initiatives.

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Ludvigsen, Anna Hedegaard. "Books and food in the reproduction of middle-class values : an intergenerational study of British families." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.632804.

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Clitherow, Leonie Rose. "Terrestrial-aquatic food web linkages across floodplains of different ages, Glacier Bay, Alaska." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6676/.

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The linkages between the stream and its riparian zone have been well studied in many diverse systems on short (generally annual) timescales. No research has yet considered this in the context of longer (multi-decadal to centennial) timescales at which landscape and successional processes operate. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, in southeast Alaska, has a well-documented history of glacial retreat, which allows for the study of ecosystem development using a space-for-time chronosequence approach. This research was unique in analysing terrestrial invertebrates on floodplains of different ages in Glacier Bay, and was the first to utilise two complementary methods of dietary analysis to study the movement of resources between terrestrial and aquatic habitats at sites of different ages. A combination of gut contents dietary analysis and stable isotope analysis was used to determine the food sources of aquatic and terrestrial consumers. Physical habitat complexity, rather than substrate age alone, was an important factor in structuring reciprocal subsidies. This has clear implications for river managers seeking to restore streams to their natural state, particularly where juvenile salmonids are present, as well as underlining the importance of considering a stream in the wider context of its riparian zone.

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de, Vries Tialda. "Let's head to the food store : An analysis of accessibility to food stores in rural and urban Västerbotten." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187661.

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Food is of great importance to daily life. Food stores and supermarkets are the key places to get food for both the urban and rural populations. This study presents the accessibility of urban and rural food stores in Västerbotten County. A GIS-based analysis created service areas around the food stores using the road network in Västerbotten. These service areas were created for two different forms of transport, driving and public transport. The public transport service areas made us of the GTFS tool within ArcGIS pro. The population within and not within these service areas were counted as having access and not having access to the food stores in the time cost model. Compared to the urban population, the rural population has less access to the food stores in both the driving and public transport service areas. For both the urban and rural populations, accessibility with the car is higher than when taking public transport options.

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Kaldjian, Paul Jeremy. "Urban food security and contemporary Istanbul: Gardens, bazaars and the countryside." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284149.

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To the visitor, Istanbul, Turkey is flush with food. But food supply and access to food can be unrelated. Socioeconomic, demographic and development data suggest food security problems for a significant portion of the population. After World War II, migrants to Istanbul from Anatolia who built house gardens within their original squatter settlements (gecekondus) have sold their lands or turned them into apartments. Similarly, only fragments of the traditional network of commercial, intensive urban gardens ( bostans) in Istanbul remain. In addition, the expanding system of European style supermarkets and commercial production in the global marketplace are changing the traditional urban food networks built around such institutions as the neighborhood bazaar. To begin to understand the shifting components of Istanbul's food system, information from numerous sources was gathered and analyzed. The main field data of my research are interviews with Istanbul farmers and residents; interviews with government officials, academics, and professionals; official and unofficial statistics from governments and associations; and surveys. Supplementary information is from Turkish newspaper sources, library materials, and various books and maps. Through kinship relations, labor mobility, the availability of formal and informal economic and transportation networks and the persistence of small, family farms nationwide, food security in Istanbul is supported by food individually and communally transferred from the countryside. Subsistence agricultural production across rural Turkey appears to play a vital role in feeding the urban population through informal food delivery and distribution channels. Thus, despite reductions in rural populations and appearances that rural and agricultural communities are declining, their productivity may be as important as ever. With their emphases on resource use, adaptation, consideration of multiple scales, and the exercise of local agency within structures of power and wealth, political and cultural ecology provide perspectives from which to meaningfully analyze food security needs and practices in Istanbul. Such a framework is enhanced by contributions from research in food systems and food security. Time centered tactics, exchange entitlements and food accessibility within the city cannot be understood apart from its relationship to the countryside.

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Sims, Rebecca. "The tourist g(r)aze : understanding place and identity through holiday food and drink." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/54125/.

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Dohee, Kim. "Causes, Experiences, and Consequences of Ethnic Food Consumption: A Case Study of Korean Restaurants in Sweden." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kulturgeografi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-150148.

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This study aims to investigate relations among causes, experiences, and consequences of consuming Korean food at Korean restaurants in Sweden. With a specific focus on Korean food in Stockholm, where most of the Korean restaurants in Sweden are located in, this study identifies significant push and pull factors regarding ethnic food experience at ethnic restaurants and consequences affected by actual customer experience. Based on knowledge and insights from related studies in the mobility, hospitality and tourism literature, food consumption and sociological research, 21 push and pull factors are identified and the levels of expectation and satisfaction are measured. Relations between customer satisfaction and the consequences of Korean food experience at Korean restaurants are also examined. A survey designed for those who have been to Korean restaurants in Stockholm was distributed via online communities. The findings identify perceptions, satisfaction and future behavior intention of consumers at Korean restaurants in Stockholm. Also, the findings present significant relationships among causes, experiences, and consequences of consuming Korean food. It suggests that food and service are important factors to attract customers to Korean restaurants and that Korean restaurants need to improve food and service attributes for better customer satisfaction, which can result in the positive future behavioral intention of customers. Also, the relationship between Korean food experience and intention to travel to Korea, in general terms, food-induced tourism, need to be further studies, as it can be useful for Korean tourism organizations and destination marketers to make strategies in order to attract more tourists from Sweden.

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O'Neill, Kirstie. "Effective policy making for establishing sustainable local food systems : the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Abruzzo region, Italy." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5727.

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This thesis investigates the ways in which local food has increasingly been seen as an integral part of rural development, and explored the increasing interest in local food from academics, policy-makers, businesses and consumers. The overall question which the research attempts to address is what steps can policy makers take to establish sustainable local food networks, particularly in areas with a traditional background in intensive agriculture specialising in commodity production? These issues were investigated in two case study areas of the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK and the Abruzzo region, Italy using in-depth interviews with policy makers, businesses and focus groups with consumers. The East Riding of Yorkshire is an intensive commodity producing area, the type of area often assumed to be devoid of local food initiatives, while the Abruzzo is largely mountainous and remote, the type of area often assumed to be ideal for local food networks. Both areas are engaged in the EU’s LEADER rural development programme and are working to support local food networks. Theorisations of policy processes and policy making as rational and logical have been supplanted by conceptualisations which aim to adopt a more nuanced approach that accounts for the messy and chaotic worlds described by research participants. This research contributes to the corpus of work which sees policy makers act subjectively, drawing on their own interests and beliefs in driving forward some policy goals whilst ‘ignoring’ other themes. A new ‘model’ of policy making is proposed in response to earlier models which present policy as rational, linear and ordered. This new ‘model’ represents policy processes as complex, non-linear and messy. Policy practices are fluid and elusive, further complicated by the absorption and loss of ideas and initiatives through processes of policy transfer, translation, ‘leaching’, negotiation and implementation. As such, this research has produced an alternative, and perhaps more effective, representation of policy making. Furthermore, the research suggests that notions of the ‘rural’ as being ‘idyllic’ are renegotiated and reproduced contemporaneously. The rural idyll influenced the imaginings of the role played by different rural areas in producing ‘local’ food. Policy makers, businesses and consumers all talked about the ‘rural’ as idyllic. This was not only in comparison to urban areas but contrasts were also identified between different rural areas. As a result, this research indicates that the concept of the rural idyll needs to be further fragmented to take account of the relational nature of rural areas. The research concludes that ‘effectiveness’ is an intangible concept, for it suggests an approach to policy-making that can be universally applied to all places, and which will result in ideal policy outcomes. In practice, for many people even talking about policy is complex and contested. More realistically policies need to be customised to suit specific local circumstances. ‘Policy/ies’ are in a constant state of churn, and cannot be easily ‘measured’ or ‘benchmarked’. This complexity of ‘policy’ itself is overlain by the opacity of concepts of ‘local’ food and rural development. Specificity and situatedness are important in understanding the ways that different areas and different people understand and apply these terms. The research thus challenges some of the assumptions frequently made about the ‘success’, or otherwise, of local food systems and rural development. The research was undertaken as part of an ESRC-CASE studentship in partnership with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

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Rischen, Myrte. "Farming into the future : A Swedish case study of niche actors' visions on a future food system." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157889.

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It is evidently clear that the current global food system urgently needs to transform to a sustainable food system However, there is no consensus on what a sustainable food system looks like. Furthermore, there is a lack of discussion about desired food systems and how to accelerate the transition towards a desired food system. Therefore, this study researches perspectives on a desired food system and pathways to reach it. Through the theoretical framework of the Multi-‐Level Perspective with three additions, this research employs a case study of Swedish niche actors, who are trying to change the food system to a more sustainable one. The findings give the niche actors' visions on characteristics of a desired food system, including production, processing, distribution and consumption. Also multiple leverage points are proposed that could create change to, or accelerate a sustainable food system transition. The research employs a personal focus by researching the process of personal and societal change to more sustainable niche practices. Hereby this study aims to contribute to studying processes of how sustainable food niches become mainstream, and the wider debate about sustainable transition theory.

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Littaye, Alexandra. "Finding time in the geographies of food : how heritage food discourses shape notions of place." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:259a4358-2b71-4d55-940d-9e7664f2d95d.

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This thesis presents a multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnography of the processes and practices through which producers attempt to designate food as heritage. Grounded in cultural geography, it adopts a cultural economy approach to addressing concerns within agro-food studies by joining in conversation notions of heritage, place-making and time. By underlining the intrinsic relation between articulations of time and constructions of place, this thesis further maps the alternative geographies of food. It engages with three overarching questions, drawing on research conducted within two heritage-based food initiatives in Mexico and Scotland, both linked to the Slow Food movement. These produce, respectively, a traditional sweet called pinole and 'real' bread. The thesis asks: what objectives are pursued through the heritagisation of food whereby various actors strategically coin foods as heritage? How is time articulated in the discourse of heritage food, and how do heritage food networks and producers understand time as a component of food quality? Finally, what senses of place emerge from the various uses of time as a quality in global, translocal and local heritage food discourses? This thesis explores Slow Food's heritage qualification scheme and the ensuing commodification of heritage food, as well as translocal networks, and practices of 'slow' production. Through empirical engagements it argues that the qualification of heritage foods is multifunctional and that various articulations of time enable small-scale producers to engage with a plethora of socio-economic and political issues. Numerous and at times conflicting constructions of place surface from the discourses woven around these two heritage products and problematise identity formation and narratives of the past linked to producers and communities. This thesis concludes that the constructions of place associated with heritage foods depend not only upon the authority and circumstances of actors articulating a heritage discourse, but also on the scale of the dissemination of that discourse, and on the notions and understandings of time associated with heritage and place.

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Rippon, Matthew James Julian. "Indications of geography? : constructions of place, boundaries, and authenticity in the UK protected food names system." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8636.

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Geographers have investigated agri-foods, commodity chains, 'alternative' food networks, 'local' production, and multicultural cuisine. However, the relationship between food, place, boundaries, environmental determinism, and authenticity remains under-researched. This thesis seeks to redress this deficiency with a detailed study of the construction of the Protected Food Names (PFN) scheme in the UK. PFNs are a type of Intellectual Property (IP) and form the European component of the international Geographical Indications (GI) system. These place-based foods and drinks originate from defined and bounded areas and are produced in supposedly traditional ways. Their manufacturers consider them unreplicable outside the protected zone. This qualitative investigation of three PFNs – Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Stilton Cheese, and Grimsby Traditional Smoked Fish – critiques the ways in which ideas of place, boundaries, and authenticity are invoked by producers. The thesis interrogates how manufacturers understand place and its boundedness, employ supposedly 'objective' historical evidence, and apply the ambiguous notion of authenticity to stabilise and sustain local practices. The study also examines the strategies deployed to generate consumer interest in an era where uniqueness is an important marker of value. This work thus introduces a different conceptual angle to accounts of the PFN structure which primarily privilege legal or economistic assessments. It aims instead to deconstruct the geographical concepts on which the PFN edifice is based. The ultimate aim is to draw attention to the vagaries inherent in the increasingly hegemonic GI model. This research connects with geographical debates about the construction of place and boundaries, the social production of authenticity, the role of selective historical 'facts' in the development of narratives about place, and the 'selling' of location and its products. It therefore provides a lens through which the foundations and everyday operation of the GI system can be profitably analysed.

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Adjapong, Frederick Kwaku. "Linking Food Security Governance and Changing Food Security Priorities: A Case Study of the Northern Region of Ghana." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou162885878645884.

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ALNASRALLAH, MOHAMMAD A. "GEOGRAPHIC DISPARITIES OF OBESITY AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE IN SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1436765800.

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Mullins, Emily Ann. "Reactions to American Food Culture: Stories from Immigrants in Athens, Ohio." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556212579404894.

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Björklund, Annika. "Historical Urban Agriculture : Food Production and Access to Land in Swedish Towns before 1900." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42578.

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This doctoral thesis analyses the role of historical urban agriculture in a long-time perspective, through a combination of overarching surveys of Swedish towns and detailed studies of one town – Uppsala in east-central Sweden. The study shows how agricultural land – town land – of various sizes was donated to towns repeatedly during medieval times and in the 16th and 17th centuries. The study examines urban food production at three points in time, and concludes that grain production and, later, potato production as well was substantial in many towns, indicating high levels of urban self-sufficiency. This allows new perspectives concerning the interpretation of urban food provision, as urban dependency on countryside food production might have varied considerably between towns. In addition, the study shows how urban agriculture was connected to social welfare systems, in particular aiming at supporting urban widows. The results in this thesis provide an historical context to the increasing discussions about present-day urban agriculture globally, and identify a number of factors that may create or counteract opportunities for urban agriculture.

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Regan, Amanda D. "Assessing the Role of Smaller Format Retailers on the Food Desert Landscape in Dallas, Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271885/.

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Many policy and business decisions regarding food deserts in the U.S. are based on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) definition of a food desert. This definition only includes large/national chain grocery retailers, based on the assumption that these major retailers are the only affordable sources of food contributing to balanced diets. As alternative distribution channels, including smaller stores, start to include groceries in their product offering, the need to consider the role of other businesses in the food retailing environment should be addressed. This thesis assesses the role of smaller format grocery retailers (small local grocers, convenience stores, gas stations, dollar stores, and drug stores) in shaping the food desert landscape in Dallas, Texas. The analysis evaluates the products offered in these stores, and then identifies the difference these stores make when included in the USDA analysis. This was done by collecting in-store data to determine the variety of products offered, the affordability of those products, and the overall healthfulness of the store. In addition, the gaps in supply and demand were identified in the USDA-defined food deserts in order to identify the impact any smaller format retailer may have. The findings suggest that, overall, smaller format retailers do offer a variety of products needed for a balanced diet. However, the products in these stores are mostly not affordable, and most stores offer more unhealthy foods, than unhealthy. Overall, results suggest dollar stores may play a role in alleviating the impact of food deserts.

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Brain, Kelsey Ann. "The Transnational Networks of Cultural Commodities: Peruvian Food in San Francisco." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2252.

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In a setting of increased movement, communication, and flows across space, commodity chain networks bring valued cultural commodities to transnational communities. This research examines the networks bringing foreign cuisine ingredients to Peruvian transnational communities in San Francisco, California. It seeks to answer three inter-related questions: 1) What are the origins and transportation networks bringing Peruvian food items to San Francisco; 2) Who controls and benefits from the movement of this food and resulting capital; and 3) How do networks vary for different classes of end consumers? Chefs of ten Peruvian restaurants and ten Peruvian migrants in the San Francisco area are interviewed to determine primary imported Peruvian food items and their cultural value. Interviews with representatives of major importing companies as well as searches of import/export databases are used to trace network flows. Flow maps follow the food items from the point of origin to the point of consumption and visually demonstrate the flow of resulting capital. Additionally, network maps are divided into three categories determined by end consumer: expensive restaurant, moderate restaurant, and home cooking. Maps are analyzed for differences between these categories. Finally, a narrative analysis discusses the role of migrants' cultural eating habits in San Francisco and its connection to transnational commodity networks. The research offers commentary on the role of food as a cultural marker for Peruvian transnationals and on the relations of power within the commodity network. This research unites economy and culture at the local and global scales while showing how “things” are imbued with cultural meaning during the processes of production to consumption on a transnational network.

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Nkhoma, Peter R. "Constituting Agricultural and Food Policy in Malawi| The Role of the State and International Donors in the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP)." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10243139.

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ABSTRACT Numerous studies have been undertaken on the political economy of agricultural policies in developing countries. These studies have explained agricultural policies in terms of urban bias, economic reforms, and domestic politics. Recently, the emphasis has been on explanations that reference the existence of a rational-legal and patronage element within the African state. Such explanations tend to underplay the extent to which agricultural policies are devised in a context of power asymmetries between the state and international donors or financial institutions. In the Malawian context specifically, limited attention has been paid to the possibility that policies are a negotiated outcome of interactions informed by competing objectives at the state-donor interface. Accordingly, the proposed study will attempt to fill this existing gap in the literature. Malawi is currently at the center of policy debates regarding the state?s capacity to launch a uniquely African Green Revolution within a marketized and capitalist configuration. Such debates mark the continued underinvestment in agriculture on the African continent. The Malawi case, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to explore the extent to which state level efforts are either confounded or enabled by donors and international financial institutions. The specific successes and failures of the Malawi case speak to the question of how other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa might successfully address food production and food security issues. This dissertation will explore the overarching question of the role of the state and international donors in shaping agricultural and food security policies using Malawi?s farm input subsidy program as a case study. The main research methods to explore this question are qualitative, including interviews with various development stakeholders (government ministries, international development agencies, researchers from policy research and academic institutions, and civil society organizations) associated with agriculture and food policy-making, and textual analysis of publications associated with them. The research specifically targets key experts in the area of agriculture and food security. The findings indicate that policies have been greatly influenced by the competing ideologies of the state and donors, with each recognizing the problem but differing on the approach and modalities for solving food insecurity in Malawi. To this extent, there has been considerable inconsistency in policies with obvious negative outcomes. More recently, there has been an aligning of policy positions towards the use of social welfare programs and commercialization in addressing food insecurity. This alignment relates to policy positions on both the FISP and the configuration of the wider agricultural sector as manifest in the National Agricultural Policy, for example. The role of domestic politics vs. donors in policy processes has been in flux due to changes in the political and economic environment and configuration at specific junctures. The study also finds that evidence has been important in informing policy-making, more importantly, finance has had significant impact in attenuating the influence of domestic politics, so that the recently proposed and implemented reforms to FISP, although connected to considerable sociopolitical pressure from various quarters, have been largely precipitated by a serious fiscal crisis on the part of the government. To this extent, the state has assumed a pragmatic approach to policy-making i.e., one that is cognizant of the limitations imposed by finance and Malawi?s very harsh, challenging, and complex context.

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Sandover, Rebecca Jane. "Doing food-knowing food : an exploration of allotment practices and the production of knowledge through visceral engagement." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14205.

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The original contribution of this thesis is through its conceptualisations of human more-than- human encounters on the allotment that break down the boundaries of subjectivities. This work extends knowledge of cultural food geography by investigating how people engage with the matter of the plot and learn to grow food. The conceptual tool by which this occurs is set out as processes of visceral learning within a framework of mattering. Therefore this work follows the material transformations of matter across production consumption cycles of allotment produce. This is examined through processes of bodily adaptions to the matter of the plot. The processes of growing your own food affords an opportunity to focus on the processes of doing and becoming, allowing the how of food growing to take centre stage (Crouch 2003, Ingold 2010, Grosz 1999). Procuring and producing food for consumption is enacted through the human more-than-human interface of bodily engagement that disrupts dualisms and revealing their complex inter-relationships, as well as the potential of visceral research (Roe 2006, Whatmore 2006, Hayes-Conroy 2008). Therefore, this is an immersive account of the procurement of food and the development of food knowledge through material, sensory and visceral becomings, which occur within a contextual frame of everyday food experiences. This study is contextualised in the complexities of contemporary food issues where matters of access, foodism and sustainability shape the enquiry. However the research is carried out at a micro-geographies lens of bodily engagements with food matter through grow your own practices on allotments. Growing food on new allotments is the locus of procurement reflecting a resurgence in such activities following from the recent rise in interest in local food, alternative food networks (AFNs) and food as a conduit for celebrity in the media (Dupuis & Goodman 2005, Lockie & Kitto 2000, Winter 2003). Moreover, the current spread of the allotment is examined as transgressing urban/rural divides and disrupting traditional perceptions of plot users. This allows investigations into spaces where community processes can unfold, providing a richly observed insight into the broadened demographics of recent allotment life.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Food geography'

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