Allouche, J. (2010). The Sustainability and Resilience

Allouche, J. (2010). The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade. Journal of Food Policy.

This article investigates current and potential strain on water and food production systems and aims at ensuring their sustainability and security. These strains are subjects of factors such as war/con-ict, economic crisis and climate change.

The paper looks at the long-term dynamics of global water and food systems in terms of sustainability and resilience and lays emphasis on possible conflict between global securities, allocation, resource scarcity and international trade as well as local coping strategies, power, social and gender relations and right-based social movements on the other.

This paper is significant in asserting the inconclusiveness of the fact that resource scarcity is a motivator of conflict, and that water and food insecurities are a product of socio-political issues. It predicts that water and food will be affected by the changing global climate.

Feenstra, G.W. (1997). Local Food Systems and Sustainable Communities. American Journal of Altrnative Agriculture.

This journal article reviews the existing literature on food system; it investigates a number of plans and initiatives that are ongoing. The paper makes a claim the long-term health of a community's food system is a significant precursor of its vitality and sustainability. It points at necessary steps that the community leaders as well as the citizenry need to take in development of their own local food system. Farmers all over the United States are coming up with innovative ways of developing local sustainable food systems. The paper reiterates the need for continued support through research of these efforts.

The significance of this paper to the research is the highlights on the need for community food systems and there contribution to the country's overall food security.

The UN Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis. (2008). Food Sustainability A guide to Private Sector Action. Comprehensive Framework for Action.

This report was done in response to the issue of soaring food prices in the world. The observation was that all major food commodities reached their highest level in nearly 30 years. This has come at the height of the campaign to reduce poverty.

The report identifies factors contributing to this crisis, including the fast increase of energy cost, increase in demand for food form increased income, trade distorting subsidies, environmental issues, production of bio fuels as a replacement of food production and import export issues as well as global climatic changes.

The significance of this report to the research is the focus on pertinent causes and recommendation it makes in regard to areas where action is needed in ensuring future food sustainability.

Tai, S. (2011). The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation. Legal Studies Research Paper Series Paper.

This paper outlines the significance between the values of the sustainable food movement and related litigation. The paper focuses on the challenges of genetically modified organisms in the food system. These are the fastest growing areas of United States agriculture in regard to food sustainability.

The article provides an analysis of both Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) and GMO litigations coming from the sustainable food Movement. It investigates the relationship between the challenges of the objectives of the various sustainable food movements. The paper concludes that there is need for creation of additional legal channels for addressing the evolving U.S. food system in order for the food sustainability movement to succeed.