Making Place for Local Food: Reflections on Institutional Procurement and the Alberta Flavour Learning Lab
| Autor: | Mary Beckie, Michael Granzow |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Scaling Up
0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology lcsh:Home economics lcsh:Regional planning Institutional Procurement lcsh:Technology Incrementalism lcsh:HT51-1595 Materials Chemistry lcsh:HT101-395 Localism Marketing lcsh:Human ecology. Anthropogeography Alberta Flavour Learning Lab lcsh:Environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 05 social sciences lcsh:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation lcsh:HT390-395 021107 urban & regional planning Forestry Scale (social sciences) Food systems Reflexive Localism 050703 geography lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply Economics and Econometrics 0507 social and economic geography lcsh:Recreation. Leisure Context (language use) Local Food lcsh:TX341-641 lcsh:GV1-1860 lcsh:Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology lcsh:Agriculture lcsh:Social Sciences Procurement Political science Media Technology Set (psychology) lcsh:T lcsh:S lcsh:H Transformative learning lcsh:G Transformative Incrementalism lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races lcsh:GF1-900 lcsh:TX1-1110 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2152-0801 |
| Popis: | Part case study, part reflective essay, this paper examines questions of place and scale in relationship to local food initiatives and, in particular, institutional procurement. A recent emphasis on “place-based” rather than “local” food systems presents an opportunity to ask, What would local food look like here? The Canadian province of Alberta is a unique place defined by a set of geographical, historical, and cultural relationships and connections around food. Through the case of the Alberta Flavour Learning Lab (Alberta Flavour), an institutional procurement initiative focused on “scaling-up” local food, we discuss how an increased emphasis on context and place activates strategic directions for thinking about food system change. We consider Alberta Flavour as a site of strategic localism that involves actively crafting a scale of local food that functions within a particular context. Rather than reinforcing divides between conventional and alternative food systems, Alberta Flavour interfaces between the broader values of the local food movement and the current realities of Alberta’s agri-food landscape and culture. We argue that the initiative’s hybrid and pragmatic approach to “getting more local food on more local plates,” while not radical, nonetheless contributes to positive food system change through “transformative incrementalism” (Buchan, Cloutier, & Friedman, in press). |
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