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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 challengesnd 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.] --
kets, 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 bala
In this book, international scholars offer critical insights into these challenges, with chapters on a variety of topics, including global food security, supermarket power, new technologies, and sustainability.
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