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2. Food democracy: critical lessons in food, communication, design and art
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vodeb, Oliver (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International: Intellect, Bristol, UK.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10201
- Notes:
- 553 pages.
3. It's not just dinner: meal delivery kits as food media for food citizens
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Khan, Sabitha Ahmad (author) and Sowards, Stacey K. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11332
- Journal Title:
- Frontiers in Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 3:39
- Notes:
- Authors examined the growth of meal kit delivery services. They advance three arguments to explore the cultural phenomenon of these services. "Despite their investment in the performative dimensons of cooking as a way to reconnect with the food system, they also miss opportunities to address gender, culture, and waste, which limits the radical potential of that performativity."
4. Review of the sustainability of food systems and transition using the Internet of Food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Holden, Nicholas M. (author), Lange, Matthew C. (author), White, Eoin P. (author), and Oldfield, Thomas L. (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10-09
- Published:
- UK: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13074
- Journal Title:
- Science of Food
- Journal Title Details:
- V.2
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Many current food systems are unsustainable because they cause significant resource depletion and unacceptable environmental impacts. This problem is so severe, it can be argued that the food eaten today is equivalent to a fossil resource. The transition to sustainable food systems will require many changes but of particular importance will be the harnessing of internet technology, in the form of an ‘Internet of Food’, which offers the chance to use global resources more efficiently, to stimulate rural livelihoods, to develop systems for resilience and to facilitate responsible governance by means of computation, communication, education and trade without limits of knowledge and access. A brief analysis of the evidence of resource depletion and environmental impact associated with food production and an outline of the limitations of tools like life cycle assessment, which are used to quantify the impact of food products, indicates that the ability to combine data across the whole system from farm to human will be required in order to design sustainable food systems. Developing an Internet of Food, as a precompetitive platform on which business models can be built, much like the internet as we currently know it, will require agreed vocabularies and ontologies to be able to reason and compute across the vast amounts of data that are becoming available. The ability to compute over large amounts of data will change the way the food system is analysed and understood and will permit a transition to sustainable food systems.