In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this framework.

Terry Marsden is Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society (BRASS), Cardiff University, UK.

Adrian Morley is Food Smart City Project Manager for Universities West Midlands, Birmingham, UK.

1. Current Food Questions and their Scholarly Challenges: Creating and Framing a Sustainable Food Paradigm 2. Food Futures: Framing the Crisis 3. European Food Governance: The Contrary Influences of Market Liberalization and Agricultural Exceptionalism 4. The Public Plate: Harnessing the Power of Purchase 5. Sustainable Food Supply Chains: The Dynamics for Change 6. Biosecurity and the Bioeconomy: The Case of Disease Regulation in the UK & New Zealand 7. Improving Animal Welfare in Europe: Cases of Comparative Bio-sustainabilities 8. Exploring the New Rural-urban Interface: Community Food Practice, Land Access and Farmer Entrepreneurialism 9. The "New Frontier"? Urban Strategies for Food Security and Sustainability 10. Conclusions: Building the Food Sustainability Paradigm: Research Needs, Complexities, Opportunities