food supply

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Let's eat!

sustainable food for a hungry planet
2017
Illustrated with many color photographs, this book explores where the food we eat comes from and what the future of farming looks like.

The world according to Monsanto

pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply
Journalist and filmmaker Marie Monique Robin offers her findings after a three-year international journey and investigation of the business practices of the agribusiness corporation Monsanto, arguing that Monsanto's new "green" practices are no less harmful than PCB and Agent Orange was in the past.

The race to feed the hungry

2015
Examines the problem of world hunger, and the efforts that are being made to make sure all of the world's people are fed.

Food around the world

2010
Text and photographs describe how our food comes from places far away.

The town that food saved

how one community found vitality in local food
2009

Eating local

Explores the trend toward eating locally grown food, including its historical origins, and the benefits and challenges of the practice.

Food, population, and the environment

2017
Since the end of World War II, the world has transformed in profound, far-reaching ways. The dismantling of European empires after the war led to decolonization, and the realignment of WWII allies led to conflict between superpowers. As the Cold War heated up, two ideologies—capitalism and communism—shaped daily life and international affairs. And as it wound down, a tidal wave of globalization wrought new avenues for growth but new sources of conflict—between the wealthy and the poor, between the Global South and the Global North. The Making of the Modern World: 1945 to the Present offers students an accessible guide to these transformations. In a compelling narrative style, the human story of our planet’s most recent history comes to life. This volume, Food, Population, and the Environment, covers the rising concerns about the degradation of the planet’s ecosystems following World War II, one of the most environmentally destructive wars in history. The vast increase in the use of pesticides and other chemicals after the war signaled some of the first alarms, as did population growth and food security. And as scientists and activists became more aware of the damages from climate change, pollution, deforestation, and desertification, an environmental movement began to translate into local and international action.

Starving

can we feed everyone?
2016
There are more hungry people in the world than most students know. And with the human population growing every day, is there a possibility we will run out of food? Filled with current facts, key details, and expert analysis, this book introduces readers to the specifics of feeding a population, including problems, such as the dangers of overly processed food, and possible solutions, such as agroecology. Students will learn how to do their part to improve the situation through Take Action boxes that can be as simple as tracking the food they eat or as involved as starting a community garden. Appendix, Charts, Graphs, Tables, Full-color photographs, For Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Sidebars, Web Sites, Chapter Notes.

A place at the table

Examines the issue of hunger in America and proposes new solutions to the problem.

Food and the city

urban agriculture and the new food revolution
2012
Examines urban agriculture-producing and distributing food in cities--looking at this practice in London, Chicago, Cuba, Toronto, and Milwaukee.

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