‘The success of all forms of food activities, including urban agricultures, rests on the economies of scope, not the economies of scale….When we understand that breakthrough method of measuring progress in urban food matters, we will come to see the potential of totally different methods of managing and rewarding food activities.’ —Wayne Roberts When Socrates, Plato and the gang had…
Month: March 2017
Being Strategic About Food and Jobs
‘By challenging the obsolete food-as-commodity understanding of food that comes from silo-style thinking in today’s fragmented departments of agriculture, water, environment and health, good food advocates will play the same central role in creative disruption that was once the norm in automotive and computer industries.’ —Wayne Roberts This report from the field comes from sunny Alberta, where the people are…