{"product_id":"food-system-intermediaries-isbn-9780262553513","title":"Food System Intermediaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eA cutting-edge analysis of food systems sustainability, including COVID’s impact on current food systems, in up-to-date case studies of community farms in Australia, Brazil, Cuba, and China.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does expanding agribusiness—and community resistance to it—reveal about the influence of global trends on local livelihoods, and conversely, the influence of food traditions on international networks?  In \u003ci\u003eFood System Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e, anthropologist Adrian Hearn examines how small farmers and their allies are defending their lands and livelihoods from expanding commodity plantations. At the heart of these encounters are food system intermediaries: people who carefully articulate food traditions to forge consensus among otherwise disconnected community producers, local governments, and urban customers. Their efforts to bring these groups together must contend with alternative portrayals of food circulated by more powerful corporate and government actors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book offers case studies of urban farms in Melbourne, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and Havana to demonstrate how intermediaries are building alliances to cultivate more sustainable food systems, particularly as China’s impact on global agriculture deepens.Series Foreword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Traversing Food Systems\u003cbr\u003e1 Mediating the Urban Fringe\u003cbr\u003e2 Using and Abusing Food Traditions in Melbourne and São Paulo\u003cbr\u003e3 Sowing Seeds of Trust in Beijing and Rio de Janeiro\u003cbr\u003e4 Reimagining Food Sovereignty in Cuba\u003cbr\u003e5 Bridging the Belt and Road\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Cultivating Middle Ground\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Adrian Hearn always brings revelations and insights to his readers that delight and enlighten—in\u003ci\u003e Food System Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e, more so than ever. Echoing Hearn’s perceptive words, history matters, for the subject being studied as well as the one doing the study.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnic Studies, Brown University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Adrian Hearn again puts to use his considerable gift as an ethnographer to give us a series of lucid studies about the role of strategic intermediaries in making possible a viable system of food production, distribution, and consumption organized around small farmers and bypassing large agribusiness. \u003ci\u003eFood System Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e is an interesting study and a valuable addition to the literatures on social capital, popular participation, and urban development.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology (emeritus), Princeton University, and Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami\u003c\/b\u003eAdrian H. Hearn teaches at the University of Melbourne. His books include \u003ci\u003eDiaspora and Trust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCuba\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Changing Currents of Transpacific Integration\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChina Engages Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e. His organization, Suns of Mercury, works with communities around the world to create music, films, and urban farms.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233174958309,"sku":"NP9780262553513","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262553513.jpg?v=1767727524","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/food-system-intermediaries-isbn-9780262553513","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}