Are local food and the local food movement taking us where we want to go? Or are we hitching our wagons to the wrong stars?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 273-283

  DeLind, Laura B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Local food; Local food movement; Locavores; Regenerative food system

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956116579     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-010-9263-0     Document Type: Article

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