Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: Taking Root -- I An Unjust Food System -- 1 Growing and Producing Food -- 2 Accessing Food -- 3 Consuming Food -- 4 Food Politics -- 5 The Food System Goes Global -- II Food Justice Action and Strategies -- 6 Growing Justice -- 7...

The integration into global and local agri-food value chains requires farmers, food processors and grocery retailers to develop and maintain close and sustainable business relationships with buyers and suppliers. This title provides an overview of the relationship economics and management.

"In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton discovered when she joined the effort to save a small food co-op in a former mill town in western Massachusetts. On...