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Geographies of Food

Global Visions of Healthy and Unhealthy Food

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Overview

  • Contributes in broadening understandings of sustainable food
  • Explores different narratives of food and transformation
  • Richly illustrated

Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

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About this book

The book offers a multi-scale, epistemically diverse, and sense-making perspectives on the food system. The book argues that sustainable food system transformation is a complex proposition that can better thrive upon the inclusion of consumer perspectives. The book brings together scholarly works of critical scholars and practitioners who bring to bear the uniqueness of places, cultures, histories and interactions in the milieu of food.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Harrison Esam Awuh

  • Institute of Geography, Political Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Samuel Agyekum

About the editors

Harrison Esam Awuh was born in Cameroon. He has over twenty years’ experience working and studying across the world (Cameroon, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Belgium, and The Netherlands). He holds a master’s degree in natural resources management, a master’s degree in human geography, and a PhD in human geography (KU Leuven, Belgium). He considers himself as a human geographer by training and a political ecologist by specialty. As a political ecologist, his expertise is sustainability with a specific focus on social sustainability. He seeks to enhance sustainability by developing inclusive research methodologies based on three cornerstones of geography (time, space, and demography). He is currently involved in developing inclusive methodologies in sustainable food system transformation with a focus on the consumers.


Samuel Agyekum is a Ghanaian with an extensive study and research experience in diverse cultures oceans apart (Denmark, The Netherlands and Ghana). He holds a Bachelors degree in Geography (University of Education, Winneba – Ghana) and Master’s degree in Urban Environmental Management from Wageningen University and Research. With exposure to knowledge coproduction and critical sustainability research, he considers himself a critical human (urban) geographer with expertise in mixed methodologies which he has deployed several of them in his specialties: food system and green cities. Within these specialties, Samuel is currently exploring the question: how transformative research approach can help understand how power relations and social inequalities are navigated, reproduced, and contested in cities. His research ambition is to enhance the discourse of critical sustainability science, where indigenous geographies are given priority in creating sustainable futures through interdisciplinary research.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geographies of Food

  • Book Subtitle: Global Visions of Healthy and Unhealthy Food

  • Editors: Harrison Esam Awuh, Samuel Agyekum

  • Series Title: Springer Geography

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49873-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49872-5Published: 10 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49875-6Due: 12 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49873-2Published: 09 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2194-315X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 215

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Food Science, Sustainable Development, Nutrition, Social Sciences, general

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