Research Agenda for Food Systems

Edited by Colin L. Sage, Independent Research Scholar

• Contents:Foreword: The urgency of food systems research xiiiTim LangAcknowledgements xixPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Food Systems 3Colin L. SagePART II ISSUES2 The rise of big food and agriculture: corporateinfluence in the food system 45Jennifer Clapp3 The food system, planetary boundaries andeating for 1.5°C: the case for mutualism andcommensality within a safe and just operatingspace for humankind 67Colin L. Sage4 Agricultural labour in the global food system 89Alicia Reigada and Carlos de Castro5 Food systems and food poverty 111Martin Caraher6 Reconfiguring animals in food systems: an agendafor research 129Lewis HollowayPART III ‘SOLUTIONS?’7 The fourth agricultural revolution: technologicaldevelopments in primary food production 151David Christian Rose, Mondira Bhattacharya,Auvikki de Boon, Ram Kiran Dhulipala, CatherinePrice and Juliette Schillings8 Of fake meat and an anxious Anthropocene:towards a cultural political economy of alternativeproteins and their implications for future food systems 175Alexandra E. Sexton and Michael K. Goodman9 Urban food systems: the case for municipal action 199Jess Halliday10 Circular food systems: a blueprint forregenerative innovations in a regional UK context 221Steffen Böhm, Rebecca Sandover, Stefano Pascucci,Laura Colombo, Sophie Jackson and Matt Lobley11 Design at the end of the food system: hybridfoodscapes in the realm of consumption 243Kata FodorIndex 259

‘In a lucid and timely call for new research, Colin Sage has curated chapters from leading food scholars on major issues affecting the global food system, and offers hope that both pragmatic and visionary solutions are emerging, which will benefit from a targeted research agenda. Sage’s book is vital, compelling reading for students, scientists, and the wider world of people concerned about our future food system.’