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Brandi Janssen: Making local food work: the challenges and opportunities of today’s small farmers

Brandi Janssen: Making local food work: the challenges and opportunities of today’s small farmers Agriculture and Human Values (2019) 36:161–162 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9899-8 Brandi Janssen: Making local food work: the challenges and opportunities of today’s small farmers University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 2017, 230 pp, ISBN 978-1609384920 Simona Zollet Accepted: 21 November 2018 / Published online: 26 November 2018 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019 Over the past decade, the concept of ‘local food’ has rap- for Agricultural Safety and Health (I-CASH). The book is idly gained visibility, capturing the attention of researchers, based on 4 years of fieldwork conducted among Iowan farm- consumers, activists and policymakers alike. With Mak- ers and meat/dairy producers active in the local food scene. ing Local Food Work: The Challenges and Opportunities Janssen employs an anthropological perspective to explore of Today’s Small Farmers, Brandi Janssen adds yet another local food farmers’ lived experiences, drawing on interview piece to the puzzle of how to build local and sustainable data as well as on a wealth of observations collected while food systems. The book is an examination of local food in working in local food farms, attending farming workshops the state of Iowa, United States, and of the challenges that and conferences and becoming actively involved in local- come with trying to strengthen local and small http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Brandi Janssen: Making local food work: the challenges and opportunities of today’s small farmers

Zollet, Simona
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 36 (1) – Nov 26, 2018
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2019 by Springer Media B.V., onderdeel van Springer Nature
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1007/s10460-018-9899-8
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Agriculture and Human Values (2019) 36:161–162 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9899-8 Brandi Janssen: Making local food work: the challenges and opportunities of today’s small farmers University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 2017, 230 pp, ISBN 978-1609384920 Simona Zollet Accepted: 21 November 2018 / Published online: 26 November 2018 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019 Over the past decade, the concept of ‘local food’ has rap- for Agricultural Safety and Health (I-CASH). The book is idly gained visibility, capturing the attention of researchers, based on 4 years of fieldwork conducted among Iowan farm- consumers, activists and policymakers alike. With Mak- ers and meat/dairy producers active in the local food scene. ing Local Food Work: The Challenges and Opportunities Janssen employs an anthropological perspective to explore of Today’s Small Farmers, Brandi Janssen adds yet another local food farmers’ lived experiences, drawing on interview piece to the puzzle of how to build local and sustainable data as well as on a wealth of observations collected while food systems. The book is an examination of local food in working in local food farms, attending farming workshops the state of Iowa, United States, and of the challenges that and conferences and becoming actively involved in local- come with trying to strengthen local and small

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