This paper reviews recent research trends in the English-speaking world related to the geography of food. Chapter 1 introduces the recent increase of interest in food geography and organizes the terminology. In Chapter 2, as the scope of food geography, the issues are reviewed based on the structure of two textbooks, and the framework, food security/(food) insecurity, is presented. In the chapter, the author presents the axis of conflict between food security and (food) insecurity, and extract keywords for the various problems related to food that are placed at various spatial scales within this axis of conflict. In Chapter 3, Bell and Valentine (1997) is presented as a frame of reference for understanding these spatial scales, and the approach of “foodscape,” in which the extracted food-related issues are discussed at the intersection of the above spatial scales, is introduced. This is the new perspective taken up in this paper. Chapter 4 presents the food security/insecurity framework and specific examples of its manifestations at spatial scales, such as global, national, and urban scales, and examines food sovereignty as a competing concept to insecurity.
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