- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 A food crime perspective
- 2 Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest
- 3 The social construction of illegality within local food systems
- 4 Ethical challenges facing farm managers
- 5 Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state
- 6 Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities
- 7 Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity
- 8 The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration
- 9 Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment
- 10 Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands
- 11 Mass <i>Salmonella</i> poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime
- 12 Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism
- 13 Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’
- 14 Coming together to combat food crime: Regulatory networks in the EU
- 15 Fair trade laws, labels and ethics
- 16 Food, genetics and knowledge politics
- 17 Technology, novel food and crime
- 18 Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies
- 19 Farming and climate change
- 20 Food waste (non)regulation
- 21 Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programmes in Brazil and Canada
- 22 Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system
- 23 Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects
- 24 Responding to food crime and the threat of the ‘food police’
- Index
Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment
Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment
- Chapter:
- (p.141) 9 Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment
- Source:
- A Handbook of Food Crime
- Author(s):
Sugandhi del Canto
Rachel Engler-Stringer
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter presents an overview of restrictive covenants as a corporate real estate practice that places conditions on land use, such as prohibiting the sale of food or prohibiting the development of grocery stores. Restrictive covenants are a significant barrier to establishing a new store in older neighbourhoods and the consequences are interconnected: when food stores act as anchors in a community shopping area, their closure can lead to a loss of neighbourhood-level identity and history. Rectifying existing nutrition deserts is much harder than preventing new ones. Alternative food systems are needed and should support urban agriculture, urban greenhouses and cooperative food store models, incentivise the development of mobile healthy food vending, and offer tax abatements or subsidies for healthy food retail in low-income nutrition desert neighbourhoods. Government support is needed to limit restrictive covenants and develop alternative food channels through various creative means.
Keywords: corporate ethics, food insecurity, environmental design, jurisprudence, city policy-making
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- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 A food crime perspective
- 2 Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest
- 3 The social construction of illegality within local food systems
- 4 Ethical challenges facing farm managers
- 5 Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state
- 6 Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities
- 7 Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity
- 8 The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration
- 9 Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment
- 10 Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands
- 11 Mass <i>Salmonella</i> poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime
- 12 Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism
- 13 Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’
- 14 Coming together to combat food crime: Regulatory networks in the EU
- 15 Fair trade laws, labels and ethics
- 16 Food, genetics and knowledge politics
- 17 Technology, novel food and crime
- 18 Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies
- 19 Farming and climate change
- 20 Food waste (non)regulation
- 21 Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programmes in Brazil and Canada
- 22 Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system
- 23 Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects
- 24 Responding to food crime and the threat of the ‘food police’
- Index
