Food security, nutrition and sustainability

• Main Author: Lawrence, Geoffrey.
• Other Authors: Lyons, Kristen., Wallington, Tabatha.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2010.
• Subjects: Food supply.; Food industry and trade.; Sustainable agriculture.; Diet > Research.; Nutrition > Research.; Agricultural innovations.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Agribusiness. > Industries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Sustainable Agriculture. > Agriculture; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.