Food security, nutrition and sustainability
As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production and food access are of particular concern in the context of climate chang...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Food security, nutrition and sustainability |c Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington. |h [electronic resource] / |
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| 505 | 0 | # | |a Introduction: food security, nutrition and sustainability in a globalized world / Geoffrey lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington -- Breadbasket contradictions: the unstable bounty of industrial agriculture in the United States and Canada / Tony Weis -- Security for whom? Changing discourses on food in Europe in times of a global food crisis / Gianluca Brunori and Angela Guarino -- The re-emergence of national food security on the United Kingdom's strategic policy agenda: sustainability challenges and the politics of food supply / David Barling, Tim Lang and Rosalind Sharpe -- Neoliberalism and food vulnerability: the stakes for the South / Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero -- Energy security, agriculture and food / Jago Dodson ... [et al.] -- Unequal food systems, unhealthy diets / Sharon Friel and Wieslaw Lichacz -- Explaining patterns of convenience food consumption / Lisa Schubert, Megan Jennaway and Helen Johnson -- Public health and moral panic: sociological perspectives on the "epidemic of obesity" / Stewart Lockie and Susan Williams -- The food regulatory system, is it protecting public health and safety? / Mark Lawrence -- The "wellness" phenomenon: implications for global agri-food systems / David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence -- Supermarkets, food systems and public health: facing the challenges / Libby Hattersley and Jane Dixon -- Bodies, bugs and dirt: sustainability re-imagined in community gardens / Kelly Donati, Susan Cleary and Lucinda Pike -- Biofuels: finding a sustainable balance for food and energy / Sophia Murphy -- Examining the mythologies of organics: moving beyond the organic/conventional binary? / Hugh Campbell ... [et al.] -- Nanotechnology and the techno-corporate agri-food paradigm / Gyorgy Scrinis and Kristen Lyons -- Conclusion: Big choices about the food system / Tim Lang. |
| 520 | # | # | |a As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production and food access are of particular concern in the context of climate change, 'peak oil', biofuels, and land grabs by wealthy nations. Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability offers critical insights by international scholars, with chapters on global food security, supermarket power, new technologies, and sustainability. The book also assesses the contributions of diet and nutri. |
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| 650 | # | 0 | |a Sustainable agriculture. |
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| 650 | # | 0 | |a Nutrition |x Research. |
| 650 | # | 0 | |a Agricultural innovations. |
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