food supply

An investigation of the global food network, exploring the reasons why obesity and world hunger are both at historical highs, looking at how individual tastes and preferences are manipulated, and discussing the links between the food system and farming communities, corporations, governments, consumers, activists, and movements.

Describes the negative effects that climate change, fuel shortages, and food security issues have on local food supplies, and discusses strategies to improve the local food supply system in the twenty-first century.

Examines the politics of food, discussing convenience foods, under-regulated commercial farms, backlash against environmentalists and consumer activists, agricultural failure in third world countries, and other related topics.

Argues that only sustainable agriculture, with small-scale local farms, can solve America's food crisis, as opposed to industrial farming with its overreliance on pesticides and fertilizer, exploited farmers and workers, and abused livestock.

A discussion of what could happen in the world if other countries do not prepare for the eventuality of China importing grain and other food products to feed its millions of people.

The author gives a broad overview of the many dimensions of world hunger, focusing specifically on the context of economic, social, political, and scientific constraints that affect global food sec.

A look at food in the United States from colonial times to the present, describing what we have eaten, where it came from, and how it reflected events in American history.