Food System Intermediaries Bonding and Bridging in China, Latin America, and Australia

Abstract

A cutting-edge analysis of food systems sustainability, including COVID’s impact on current food systems, in up-to-date case studies of community farms in Australia, Brazil, Cuba, and China. What does expanding agribusiness—and community resistance to it—reveal about the influence of global trends on local livelihoods and, conversely, the influence of food traditions on international networks? In Food System Intermediaries, anthropologist Adrian Hearn examines how small farmers and their allies are defending their lands and livelihoods from expanding commodity plantations. At the heart of these encounters are food system intermediaries: people who carefully articulate food traditions to for..