TY - JOUR
T1 - Reweaving the food security safety net
T2 - Mediating entitlement and entrepreneurship
AU - Allen, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
Table 2. Components of projects funded under USDA Community Food Project grants (1996–1997).
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The American food system has produced both abundance and food insecurity, with production and consumption dealt with as separate issues. The new approach of community food security (CFS) seeks to re-link production and consumption, with the goal of ensuring both an adequate and accessible food supply in the present and the future. In its focus on consumption, CFS has prioritized the needs of low-income people; in its focus on production, it emphasizes local and regional food systems. These objectives are not necessarily compatible and may even be contradictory. This article describes the approach of community food security and raises some questions about how the movement can meet its goals of simultaneously meeting the food needs of low-income people and developing local food systems. It explores the conceptual and political promise and pitfalls of local, community-based approaches to food security and examines alternative economic strategies such as urban agriculture and community-supported agriculture. It concludes that community food security efforts are important additions to, but not subsitutes for, a nonretractable governmental safety net that protects against food insecurity.
AB - The American food system has produced both abundance and food insecurity, with production and consumption dealt with as separate issues. The new approach of community food security (CFS) seeks to re-link production and consumption, with the goal of ensuring both an adequate and accessible food supply in the present and the future. In its focus on consumption, CFS has prioritized the needs of low-income people; in its focus on production, it emphasizes local and regional food systems. These objectives are not necessarily compatible and may even be contradictory. This article describes the approach of community food security and raises some questions about how the movement can meet its goals of simultaneously meeting the food needs of low-income people and developing local food systems. It explores the conceptual and political promise and pitfalls of local, community-based approaches to food security and examines alternative economic strategies such as urban agriculture and community-supported agriculture. It concludes that community food security efforts are important additions to, but not subsitutes for, a nonretractable governmental safety net that protects against food insecurity.
KW - Anti-hunger efforts
KW - Community food security
KW - Community supported agriculture
KW - Localism
KW - Participatory democracy
KW - Urban food production
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1007593210496
DO - 10.1023/A:1007593210496
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:53149105953
SN - 0889-048X
VL - 16
SP - 117
EP - 129
JO - Agriculture and Human Values
JF - Agriculture and Human Values
IS - 2
ER -