"This book examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions. In four locales in North Carolina, this book reveals the contributions made by local food movement activists seeking to bring about more sustainable and more socially just local food economies"--

Donald M. Nonini is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and co-author of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics.