Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat.

Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced.

Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford and other contributors explore the key political and economic questions of food through the everyday experience and vivid insights of farmers and consumers, using fieldwork from case studies in four European countries: France, Spain, Italy and England. Food for Change is an insightful consideration of connections between food and wider economic relations and draws on a rich vein of anthropological writing on the topic.

About the Author
Jeff Pratt is Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Class, Nation and Identity (Pluto, 2003) and Food for Change (Pluto, 2013). Pete Luetchford is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Fair Trade and a Global Commodity (Pluto, 2007) and Food for Change (Pluto, 2013).

Reviews

'A hugely rich account of the local food movement as it manifests itself across Europe, offering compelling case studies of creative alternatives outside the capitalist mainstream'

-- John Hilary, Executive Director at War on Want

'This is a timely book that will help to inform, from an anthropological standpoint, academic and political conversations about contemporary alternatives to agro-industrial food'

-- Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, author of 'Foodscapes, Foodfields and Identities in Yucatan'



Book Information
ISBN 9780745334486
Author Jeff Pratt
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Pluto Press
Publisher Pluto Press
Weight(grams) 289g