This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on key contemporary themes including the increased recognition that food can be regarded as a commons.

1. Introduction: the food commons are coming... PART I: REBRANDING FOOD AND ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES OF TRANSITION 2. The idea of food as a commons: multiple understandings for multiple dimensions of food 3. The food system as a commons 4. Growing a care-based commons food regime 5. New roles for citizens, markets and the state towards an open-source agricultural revolution 6. Food security as a global public good PART II: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF FOOD 7. Food, needs and commons 8. Community-based commons and rights systems 9. Food as cultural core: human milk, cultural commons and commodification 10. Food as a commodity PART III: FOOD-RELATED ELEMENTS CONSIDERED AS COMMONS 11. Traditional agricultural knowledge as a commons 12. Scientific knowledge of food and agriculture in public institutions: movement from public to private goods 13. Western gastronomy, inherited commons and market logic: cooking up a crisis 14. Genetic resources for food and agriculture as commons 15. Water, food and climate commoning in South African cities: contradictions and prospects PART IV: COMMONING FROM BELOW: CURRENT EXAMPLES OF COMMONS-BASED FOOD SYSTEMS 16. The 'campesino a campesino' agroecology movement in Cuba: food sovereignty and food as a commons 17. The commoning of food governance in Canada: pathways towards a national food policy? 18. Food surplus as charitable provision: obstacles to re-introducing food as a commons 19. Community-building through food self-provisioning in Central and Eastern Europe: an analysis through the food commons framework PART V: DIALOGUE OF ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES OF TRANSITION 20. Can food as a commons advance food sovereignty? 21. Land as a commons: examples from United Kingdom and Italy 22. The centrality of food for social emancipation: civic food networks as real utopias projects 23. Climate change, the food commons and human health PART VI: CONCLUSIONS 24. Food as commons: towards a new relationship between the public, the civic and the private