**What happens in this section** [[4. Food Regime & Risk Transitions in Hawaii]] charts the macro-scale/tectonic shifts, from a global systems lens, this section ==regionalizes these trends to understand the tides of shifting foodways== through through the islands. **Big Ideas** - the fundamental base unit of agricultural production, the parcel, has not shifted much in the past century (or longer?) - @wilcox_1916 : The area of homesteads, as parceled out in the early days, was about 6 acres and was obviously inadequate for the maintenance of the family in an independent condition. As a matter of fact, few even of these small homesteads were properly farmed. The laborers recognized the fact that under existing conditions a living could not be made from such a small area. - the marketplace has shifted drastically over that time - the once supportive social-technical infrastructures to bridge these scales, like cooperatives, have/had largely fallen away - market coordination is consistently a critical aspect of crisis response