List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of activities -- Insights -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Part 1. The Place of Food -- Chapter 1. Introducing Geographies of Food ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 What are food geographies? ; 1.2.1 Multiple food meanings ; 1.2.2 Food, place, space and scale ; 1.2.3 Mobilities and transformation : power and control ; 1.3 Geographical imaginations and food's geographies ; 1.4 Structure of the book -- Chapter 2. Food and Place Identity ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Making food and making places : landscapes, nations and labour ; 2.3 Moving food and making places : placing and displacing ; 2.3.1 Placing food : the case of 'terroir' ; 2.3.2 Displacing and placing food : migrant cuisines ; 2.3.3 Placing diets ; 2.4 Summary ; 2.5 Further reading -- Part 2. Geographies of Food Production, Transformation and Consumption -- Chapter 3. Geographies and Politics of Agricultural Production ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Geographies of food production : a global perspective ; 3.2.1 A global typology of primary food production systems ; 3.2.2 Overcoming the land-bias : the role of fisheries and marine management ; 3.2.3 Back to the land : global levels of food production ; 3.2.4 Geographical distribution of agricultural land ; 3.3 Agro-food commodity chains : product sector geographies ; 3.3.1 Cereals production ; 3.3.2 Fruit and vegetables ; 3.3.3 Meat and the changing chicken ; 3.3.4 Spatial concentration, newly agriculturalising economies and relational assemblages ; 3.4 Producing food in the city : urban agriculture ; 3.5 Agricultural policy : political geographies of food production ; 3.5.1 The US Farm Bill ; 3.5.2 The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ; 3.5.3 Comparing the US Farm Bill and the CAP ; 3.6 Summary ; 3.7 Further reading -- Chapter 4. What Happens to Food : Geographies of Mobility and Transformation ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Mobility and transformations : geographies and relationships ; 4.3 Transforming agriculture and food under capitalism : the agrarian question ; 4.4 Liberalising food mobility : global trade policy and global food regimes ; 4.5 Government intervention, global food governance and free trade ; 4.5.1 From protectionism to free trade ; 4.5.2 Trading blocs and subsidy debates ; 4.5.3 Anti-politics and trade disputes ; 4.6 Global food trading : mobilising High Value Foods (HVFs) ; 4.7 'Big Food' : transforming and industrialising food ; 4.8 Working in farming and food processing : the human cost ; 4.9 Wasting food in industrialised food systems ; 4.10 Summary ; 4.11 Further reading -- Chapter 5. Eating Geographies : The Spaces and Cultures of Food Consumption ; 5.1 Introducing the geographies of eating ; 5.2 The shifting geographies of food consumption ; 5.3 Food's cultural geographies : eating space(s), places and connections ; 5.3.1 The spaces of food : the foodscapes of acquisition and access ; 5.3.2 The cultural spaces of food : the city, home and eating on the run ; 5.3.3 Eating the cosmopolitan city ; 5.3.4 Home cooking and eating ; 5.3.5 Eating bodies : making spatial and cultural connections through identities ; 5.4 Eating geographical politics and ethics ; 5.4.1 Vegetarianism, veganism and low carbon diets ; 5.4.2 Food provenance : knowing your food ; 5.5 Summary : eating space, place and scale ; 5.6 Further reading -- Part 3. Geographies of Food Crisis and Response -- Chapter 6. Food Systems in Crisis? The New Food Insecurity ; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 The contours of the world food crisis ; 6.2.1 Food prices and the 2007-08 price spike ; 6.3 The new food security debate ; 6.4 Explaining the 2007-2008 food price crisis : the new fundamentals ; 6.4.1 Climate change and food insecurity ; 6.5 Financial speculation and the food crisis ; 6.5.1 Financial markets and agricultural derivatives ; 6.5.2 Food speculation, food prices and food security ; 6.6 Other critical interpretations of the food crisis and food insecurity ; 6.7 Summary ; 6.8 Further reading -- Chapter 7. The Fight against Hunger and Malnutrition in the Majority World ; 7.1 Introduction ; 7.2 The scale and geography of hunger and malnutrition in the Majority World ; 7.2.1 Defining hunger and malnutrition ; 7.2.2. Where do hunger and malnutrition occur? ; 7.3 Causes of hunger and malnutrition in the Majority World ; 7.3.1 Poverty, Inequality and Conflict ; 7.3.2 International structural inequalities ; 7.4 The international response to hunger and malnutrition : from Green Revolution to the Sustainable Development Goals ; 7.4.1 The Green Revolution ; 7.4.2 The World Food Conference and the World Food Summits ; 7.4.3 The Millennium Development Goals ; 7.4.4 The Sustainable Development Goals ; 7.5 From corporate power to people power : the rise of food sovereignty ; 7.5 Summary ; 7.6 Further reading -- Chapter 8. Food Insecurity Amidst Wealth ; 8.1 Introduction ; 8.2 Food insecurity in the 21st Century : scale, causes and consequences ; 8.2.1 What is food insecurity in rich countries? ; 8.2.2 The scale of food insecurity ; 8.2.3 The experience of food insecurity ; 8.2.4 Causes of food insecurity : Poverty, deprivation and food deserts ; 2.4.1 Poverty and deprivation ; 2.4.2 Food deserts ; 8.3 Solutions to food insecurity ; 8.3.1 Charitable food aid and the role of corporations ; 8.3.2 The right to food ; 8.3.3 Food sovereignty movements in wealthy countries ; 8.3.4 The movement for food justice ; 8.4. Summary ; 8.5 Further reading -- Chapter 9. Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food ; 9.1 Introduction ; 9.2 AFNs : definition and geography ; 9.2.1 Defining AFNs ; 9.2.2 Alternative food geography : reclaiming space and place ; 9.3 'First Generation' AFNs : locality foods, local food networks and fair trade ; 9.3.1 Commodity circuits and geographical knowledges : the case of locality foods ; 9.3.2 Local food networks : relations-of-proximity ; 9.3.3 Farmers' markets : purpose and benefits ; 9.3.4 Social embeddedness, geographies of regard and an ethic of care in AFNs ; 9.3.5 The 'local trap' and further critiques of AFNs ; 9.4 Fair Trade networks : The moral economy of getting to know your coffee farmer ; 9.4.1 Fair Trade : connecting places and development through alternative markets ; 9.4.2 Into the mainstream and into the (fairer) future ; 9.5 'Second generation' AFNs and sustainability transitions ; 9.5.1 The Local Food programme in England ; 9.5.2 Food hubs and solidarity purchasing groups ; 9.5.3 Food security, transition theory and grassroots social innovations ; 9.5.4 Civic food networks ; 9.6 Summary ; 9.7 Further reading -- Part 4. Geographies of Possible Food Futures -- Chapter 10. Future Scenarios for Sustainable Food and Farming ; 10.1 Introduction ; 10.2 Towards sustainable food ; 10.3 Beyond productivist agriculture and 'big food' : competing emergent paradigms and 'food wars' ; 10.4 Technocentric approaches : sustainability through science? ; 10.5 Ecocentric approaches : sustainability through agroecology? ; 10.6 Sustainable diets and a decentralised food politics ; 10.6.1 Towards reflexive food governance? ; 10.6.2 Digital foodscapes and food citizenship ; 10.7 Summary ; 10.8 Further reading -- Chapter 11. Conclusions ; 11.1 Introduction ; 11.2 Aftertaste : key themes revisited ; 11.2.1 Multiple food geographies ; 11.2.2 The co-production of food, place, space and scale ; 11.2.3 Mobilities, transformation, power and control ; 11.3 Changing the food system : putting ourselves in the mix ; 11.4 Last bites for food citizens -- References -- Index.