Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public administration scholars, and scholars from other disciplines can unintentionally draw up established public administration literature. The chapters in this edited volume highlight where the lenses and languages of public administration can and should be used to analyze food systems. Viewed collectively, the editors argue that the lenses and languages of public administration can and should become a common ground for scholars and practitioners to discuss food systems.

Contributions by: Helen Alemayehu Mebrate, Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Angela Babb, Jodi Benenson, Brent Blevins, Can Chen, Carol Ebdon, Rachel Emas, Erin Feichtinger, Sheila Fleischhacker, B.J. Fletcher, Xaq Frohlich, Clarivel Gonzalez, Michael Haedicke, A. Bryce Hoflund, Carina Isbell, Jake Jacobs, John C. Jones, Kristal Jones, Carolyn Lois, Emily MacNabb, Craig S. Maher, Michelle C. Pautz, Sungho Park, Laurie Ristino, Amy Rosenthal, Jennifer Rutledge, Andrew J. Schneller, Danni Smith, Daniel Tobin