التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Localizing the global food system |
| المؤلفون: |
Acott, Tim G., La Trobe, Helen L. |
| المصدر: |
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology; Dec2000, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p309, 0p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ORGANIC farming, SUSTAINABLE development, AGRICULTURE, GLOBALIZATION |
| مستخلص: |
Agricultural systems have become increasingly industrialized and mechanized, relying on machinery and chemical inputs, rather than peopleand natural processes, to increase yields of food. The trend towardsan increasingly globalised food system encourages unsustainable transportation of food around the world. Agricultural intensification andthe globalisation of the agrofood chain has resulted in adverse environmental, social and economic consequences impeding moves towards sustainability. Organic farming can overcome many of the environmental problems associated with agricultural intensification. However, it does not have the potential to fully address the social and economic problems caused by the globalisation of the food system. Organic farming must be combined with local and regional sourcing of food products,for instance through forms of direct marketing of organic produce. Direct marketing schemes such as farmers' markets, food box delivery schemes and community-supported agriculture are all projects which, ifmanaged with sustainability as the prime objective, have the potential to move towards a more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable agrofood system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
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