University Press of America
Pages: 168
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-0-7618-6053-2 • Hardback • September 2013 • $86.00 • (£66.00)
978-0-7618-6054-9 • eBook • September 2013 • $81.50 • (£63.00)
Camille Tuason Mata is a Philippine-born American who has been studying food systems and sustainability since 2000, when she began her graduate studies in urban and regional planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She subsequently went on to complete a MA in social change and development at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, in 2002 and a MA in liberal arts with a concentration in environmental studies at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, in 2009.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Framing the Indicators for Measuring Minority Food Access
2. Community Food Security: An Evolving Concept
3. Localizing Food Security: Oakland’s Experience
4. The History of Farming Access for Minority Farmers
5. Historicizing Access to the Sustainable Food System through CSAs, Farmer’s Markets, and Urban Gardens
6. Summarizing Marginalization and Concluding Remarks
7. Bibliography
About the Author
This is a substantial contribution to food security literature. Her interdisciplinary approach does a fine job of placing her original research within a larger context.
— Ralph Lutts, coordinator of the MA Concentration in Environmental Studies, Goddard College
Camille Tuason Mata has provided a very comprehensive and extensive study of the ways minorities have been marginalized from the sustainable food system in California. . . . Her thesis is applicable to many places, including India, where farmers are pushing to be more central to the food system. The [thesis], I should say, is very good.
— Krishnan Subramanian, independent farming professional, Research and Study Centre for Organic Farming, Chennai, India
Her research renders both a comprehensive and in-depth picture of the current state of minority food access in Oakland. . . . Tuason Mata lays out the evolution of organic agriculture and explains why our growing understanding of community organic agriculture is integral to community food security in the twenty-first century.
— Greg Gerritt, coordinator, Rhode Island Compost Initiative, Environment Council of Rhode Island