TASTING FOOD TASTING SUSTAINABILITY

Tasting Food Tasting sustainability



Tasting Food Tasting sustainability

Literature Review

Introduction

Sustainable consumption is increasingly on the policy menu, and local organic food situation has been widely advocated as a practical means of achieving necessary changes in the conventional system of production and consumption. In this paper we present the first empirical assessment of local organic food networks as a tool for sustainable consumption. Thus, it makes a timely and original contribution to discussions on environmental governance to discuss the role and capacity of local organic food network to create new institutions that enable individuals and groups to change their consumption patterns. Sustainable consumption is growing up menu environmental policy as a strategy to achieve more sustainable development, which requires widespread changes in behavior at all levels of society to reduce the environmental impact of consumption. While the new international environmental governance institutions grow upwards from the state on a global scale to address systemic environmental problems, there is increasing emphasis on smallerscale management and citizen action at various sub-national levels, from local grass-roots community groups and individuals). New tools needed for the development and adoption of these programs in the communities, we consider one of such initiatives, namely the local organic food system, and assesses its potential role in promoting sustainable consumption. There is a growing policy attention to the role of motivated individuals for the implementation of consumer sovereignty and market transformation through the trivia of daily purchasing decisions.

Background

The sociological analysis of consumption suggests that the scope of individuals and groups to change their behavior is limited to the existing social infrastructure and institutions - the system software - which is to "fix" to consumers in a particular pattern of consumption (Levett et al, 2003; Maniates, 2003; Sanne , 2002). "Systems software" vertical chain of goods (including manufacture, marketing, distribution, retailing and consumption in the socio-cultural context) which mediate between and link 'particular pattern of production with a specific pattern of consumption "(Fine and Leopold, 1993: 4). In the literature, the "New Economy" refers to sustainable consumption requires fundamental changes in lifestyle, economic and social systems to seek an increase in quality of life rather than material consumption (Jackson, 2004 Pp. 34). Therefore, it requires a deeper understanding of the situation, which mediate consumption, in order to transform these elements of social infrastructure at a fundamental level (Van Vliet et al, 2005; Southerton et al, 2004). Local organic food situation has been widely advocated as a practical means of achieving necessary changes in the conventional system of production and consumption (Norberg-Hodge et al, 2000; Jones, 2001; Douthwaite, 1996). Previous studies have examined the economic and social consequences of re-localized and alternative food networks (Rent et al, 2003; Holloway and Kneafsey, 2000; Winter 2003; Saltmarsh, 2004b; Dupuis and Goodman, 2005, Murdoch et al, 2000), and environmental impact of local vs. imported food and organic vs. conventionally food production (eg, Pretty, 2001), but so far not been systematic evaluation of local organic food as a strategy for sustainable consumption, and ...