Acquired Tastes

Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930: stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat. The modern ... Lees meer

Agroecology in Action

Keith Douglass Warner

• Hardcover | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's lea... Lees meer

Modern Chinese Foodways

Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• An edited collection that explores the multifaceted experiences of Chinese culinary modernity both within and outside of mainland China from the mid-1... Lees meer

Seeds, Science, and Struggle

Abby Kinchy

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront "science-based" regulation of genetically engineered crops. Genetic engineering h... Lees meer

Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts

Vaclav Smil, Kazuhiko Kobayashi

• Hardcover | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, a... Lees meer

The Painful Truth about Hunger in America

Mariana Chilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US. Most people think hunger has to do with food: rese... Lees meer

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance

• Hardcover | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• Experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustain... Lees meer

Global Meat

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other ... Lees meer

Big Hunger

Andrew Fisher

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality. Fo... Lees meer

Food Justice

Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm ... Lees meer

Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice

Jill Lindsey Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists. The w... Lees meer

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance

Clapp

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• Experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustain... Lees meer

The New American Farmer

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and s... Lees meer

Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and l... Lees meer

Transforming School Food Politics Around the World

Jennifer E. Gaddis, Sarah A. Robert

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• How to successfully challenge and transform public school-food programs to emphasize care, justice, and sustainability, with insights from eight count... Lees meer

Cultivating Food Justice

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially... Lees meer

Seed Activism

Karine E Peschard

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public int... Lees meer

Feeding the Other

Rebecca T de Souza

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justic... Lees meer

The Immigrant-Food Nexus

• Paperback | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodwa... Lees meer

Agroecology in Action

Keith Douglas Warner

• Paperback | Food, Health, and the Environment
• Detailed case studies of agrecological initiatives show how growers, scientists, agricultural organizations, and public agencies can form partnerships... Lees meer

Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice

Jill Lindsey Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Food, Health, and the Environment
• An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists. The w... Lees meer