The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work provides the first descriptive history of local food movement national policy achievements in the US and in the UK, together with reviews of both the American and British local food movements.

Alan R. Hunt is owner and principal of Local Food Strategies LLC, based on his family farm in Hampton, New Jersey, USA. He was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK, where he also earned a PhD in Rural Development.

1. Local Food Policies as a Lens on American and British Food Movements 2. Local Food in National American Policy, 1976-2012: Increasing Inclusion, Increasing Policy Success 3. Local Food in National English Policy, 1991-2012: Policy Decline with Increased Contention 4. English Case Study: The Co-option of Local Food Policy by Environmental Interest Groups 5. American Case Study: Overcoming Barriers to Policy Change due to Civil Society Coordination Failure 6. Making Space for Collaboration in the Food System: Three Practices for Overcoming Exclusion 7. Toward a Theory of Food Systems Practice