NEWS

2025.11.13

【Publication】An newly-edited book, Navigating Local Sustainability in Food, Community, and Innovation: From Grassroots to Global, has been published!

Navigating Local Sustainability in Food, Community, and Innovation: From Grassroots to Global presents a multi-layered picture of food sustainability from the region to the world, integrating theory and practice through concrete examples. Further details on the book can be found on the following page (please add a link icon and direct readers to the next page.（https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-8963-7）。

The book is divided into four sections, offering a thorough and multifaceted examination of topics ranging from food security to agricultural practices and communities’ activities.

  1. Global Insights and Local Dynamics: Providing a comprehensive review of research on regional food resilience systems.
  2. Community Resilience and Food Security: Re-examining concrete initiatives related to food security and food sovereignty, including food bank activities in Japan, practices of non-rice food banks in Indonesia, and community-based approaches to self-sustaining resilience through local asset management.
  3. Practices for Sustainable Communities: Detailing a variety of community-led sustainability initiatives, including community energy projects in the United Kingdom, challenges faced in social forestry, sustainable tourism practices in Nikko City, Japan, ecotourism efforts in Hong Ha Commune, Vietnam, and resource management in Germany.
  4. Advancing Sustainability in Agriculture: Focusing on concrete agricultural practices and policy issues across several countries, including resilience-building among SMEs in Vietnam’s traditional farming villages, organic rice cultivation in Japan, sustainable rice-farming policies in Shiga Prefecture, and support for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Thailand.

Incorporating grassroots practices and academic frameworks from Japan, Vietnam, Germany, and the United Kingdom, this book provides practical insights that support the vision and development of a sustainable future.