Foodshed
The “farm-to-table” movement is focused on producing food locally within a foodshed, and delivering it to local consumers. Direct farm-to-table in the United States tends to comprise only a very minor segment of the food distribution system in terms of size and importance, but is growing in popularity.Nearly 5 percent of all farmers engage in some form of direct food marketing. Estimates of all farm-to-table sales within a foodshed range from roughly $550 million to $2 billion. Many local farms are family-run farms that are successful and do survive through poor economic conditions. Ecologists consider to be more adaptive and more likely to “reproduce” in highly variable and uncertain environments.
Food render
Food render or food rent (Old English: "foster") was a form of tax in kind (Old English: "feorm") levied in Anglo-Saxon England, consisting of essential foodstuffs provided by territories such as "regiones", multiple estates or hundreds to kings and other members of royal households at a territory's royal vill.