Overview

Everywhere you look, people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers' market. ""Together at the Table"" is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future.

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In Together at the Table, sociologist Patricia Allen offers a timely analysis of the discourse and practices of two prominent alternative agrifood movements in the United States: sustainable agriculture and community food security. These movements have contributed significantly to pushing dominant agrifood institutions in a direction that is more environmentally sound and socially just.... Together at the Table... will be of immense value to anyone wanting to understand how alternative agrifood movements can transform the current agrifood system. - Jason Schreiner, Environment

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Patricia Allen is Associate Director for Sustainable Food Systems at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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