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Food security, nutrition and sustainability

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Earthscan 2010Description: xxiv,295p. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781849713870
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.19 22 FO-
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .L394 2010
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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