TY - JOUR AU - Mullinix, Kent AU - Robert, Naomi AU - Harbut, Rebecca PY - 2019/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Place-Based Food Systems: Making the Case, Making it Happen JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 9 IS - A SE - Editorial DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2019.09A.002 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/752 SP - 1-3 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><p>In less than a century, our food system has been transformed into a complex network of global-industrial supply chains, increasingly disconnecting us from the people and processes that provide our food. Such a ‘market-driven’ system externalizes many of its social, environmental, and economic costs. At the same time, it concentrates power and profits among a few stakeholders who maintain hegemonic control of the food systems, yet are often far removed from its negative impacts. The list of transgressions is long and familiar to us: extensive environmental degradation, unjust labor conditions for food workers, the collapse of farming communities, epidemic occurrence of western diet–related disease, biodiversity loss, and on it goes. It is a system that produces more food than at any period in history—more than enough to feed the global population (Holt-Giménez, Shattuck, Altieri, Herren, &amp; Gliessman, 2012, Food and Agriculture Organ­ization of the United Nations [FAO], 2017)—yet leaves more than one in 10 people experiencing hunger (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO], International Fund for Agricul­ture Devel­opment [IFAD], UNICEF, World Food Programme [WFP], &amp; World Health Organization [WHO], 2019).</p> ER -