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Title: Food security, nutrition and sustainability / Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington.
Author: Wallington, Tabatha. ; Lawrence, G. A. (Geoffrey A.) ; Lyons, Kristen.
Year: 2009.
Description: xxiv, 295 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Diet. ; Agricultural innovations. ; Sustainability. ; Farming. ; Food industry. ; Food. ; Obesity. ; Public health. ; Physical distribution of goods. ; Agriculture. ; Food supply. ; Nutrition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN/ISSN: 9781844077755 (hardback);
Type: Book
Abstract: 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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