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Food and Nutrition Sustainable food and health systems

Food and Nutrition Sustainable food and health systems

Food-how we produce prepare share and consume it-is fundamental to our wellbeing. It also connects the human body to the complex and dynamic systems of our environment. This is more significant than ever before in human history as climate change and increasing population impact on global ecosystems. This fourth edition of Food and Nutrition has been completely rewritten to reflect an ecosystems approach to human health. It is shaped around four dimensions of human nutrition: biology society environment and economy. Food and Nutrition provides a comprehensive overview of food components and the biochemistry of foods and digestion. It outlines nutrition needs at different life stages dietary disorders and social and cultural influences on food selection and consumption. It also explores the increasing influence of technology on agriculture and food preparation and recent research into intergenerational nutrition and nutrigenomics. At every stage it points to how you can impact your own health and the health of others as a global citizen and as a health or other food-system-related professional. Extensively illustrated with informative graphs diagrams and data and with examples glossaries and reflective exercises Food and Nutrition is the ideal introduction to the field of nutrition and dietetics for the 21st century and a valuable professional reference for early career dietitians. | Food and Nutrition Sustainable food and health systems

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The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

Thoroughly revised and updated the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy with chapters focusing on foodscapes the financialization of food and a new chapter dedicated to food and nutrition (in)security. In Part II the book addresses community and culture. While some books only look at the interrelationships between food and culture this section problematizes the food system from the standpoint of marginalized bodies. It contains chapters focusing on agricultural and food labor and the peasantries topics which are often overlooked and gender ethnicity and poverty. Part III examines food and the environment with chapters addressing important topics such as agro-ecosystems food justice sustainable food and agriculture and food sovereignty. The final part focuses on food futures and includes a brand-new chapter on sustainable diets and ethical consumption. The book concludes by showcasing how we can rethink food production and consumption in a way that can help heal social political and cultural divisions. All chapters draw on international case studies and include learning objectives suggested discussion questions and recommendations for further reading to aid student learning. The Sociology of Food and Agriculture is perfect for students of food studies including food justice food and nutrition security sustainable diets food sovereignty environmental sociology agriculture and cultural studies.

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Food Futures in Education and Society

Food Futures in Education and Society

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies recent research curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food. Food education has gained much attention because the challenges that influence food availability and eating in schools also extend beyond the school gate. Accordingly this book establishes evidence-based arguments that recognise the many facets of food education and reveal how learning through a future's lens and joined-up thinking is critical for shaping intergenerational fairness concerning food futures in education and society. This book is distinctive through its multidisciplinary collection of chapters on food education with a particular focus on the Global North with case studies from England Australia the Republic of Ireland the United States of America Canada and Germany. With a focus on three key themes and a rigorous food futures framework the book is structured into three sections: (i) food education pedagogy and curriculum (ii) knowledge and skill diversity associated with food and health learning and (iii) food education inclusivity culture and agency. Overall this volume extends and challenges current research and theory in the area of food education and food pedagogy and offers insight and tangible benefits for the future development of food education policies and curricula. This book will be of great interest to students scholars policymakers and education leaders working on food education and pedagogy food policy health and diet and the sociology of food.

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Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

This book fills a gap in the growing academic discipline of food and agricultural tourism offering the first multidisciplinary approach to food tourism and the role it plays in economic development destination marketing and gastronomic exploration. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline by considering food tourism in connection with both cultural values and important issues in agriculture food consumption and safety and rural heritage and sustainability. The book is divided into four Parts. Part I defines the elements of food tourism and explains its relationship with sustainability. Part II provides an overview of rural development and demonstrates the impact of industrialization and globalization on eating habits. Part III focuses on food tourism studies and market segmentation techniques to help students understand customer needs regarding food tourism products. Finally Part IV looks at the financial policy and legal requirements relating to food tourism development providing hands-on tools for students entering food tourism businesses or industries. Complemented by a wide range of international case studies key definitions and study questions Food and Agricultural Tourism is essential reading for students of tourism geography and economic development studies. | Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

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Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

This comprehensive text provides the latest research on key concepts principles and practices for promoting healthy and sustainable food systems. There are increasing concerns about the impact of food systems on environmental sustainability and in turn the impact of environmental sustainability on the capacity of food systems to protect food and nutrition security into the future. The contributors to this book are leading researchers in the causes of and solutions to these challenges. As international experts in their fields they provide in-depth analyses of the issues and evidence-informed recommendations for future policies and practices. Starting with an overview of ideas about health sustainability and equity in relation to food systems Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems examines what constitutes a food system with chapters on production manufacturing distribution and retail among others. The text explores health and sustainable diets looking at issues such as overconsumption and waste. The book ends with discussions about the politics policy personal behaviours and advocacy behind creating healthy and sustainable food systems. With a food systems approach to health and sustainability identified as a priority area for public health this text introduces core knowledge for students academics practitioners and policy-makers from a range of disciplines including food and nutrition sciences dietetics public health public policy medicine health science and environmental science.

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Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions nothing short of a revolution is required in our use of land our farming practices and our diet. Taking a historical approach the book examines the evolution of agriculture and the food system in the UK over the last century and discusses the implications of tackling climate change for food farming and land use setting the UK situation in an international context. The chapters analyse the key challenges for this transition including dietary change and food waste afforestation and energy crops and low-emission farming practices. This historical perspective helps develop an understanding of how our food farming and land use system has evolved to be the way that it is and draws lessons for how the agri-food system could evolve further to support the transition to net zero and avoid catastrophic climate change. Written in a clear and accessible style this book will be essential reading to students and scholars of food agriculture and the environment as well as policymakers and professionals involved climate change policy and the agriculture and food industry. | Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

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Geographies of Food and Power

Geographies of Food and Power

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms either at the intermediate or advanced level. It takes an intersectional approach to difference and power and approaches standard subjects in the geography of food with a fresh perspective focusing on inequality uneven production and legacies of colonialism. The book also focuses on places and regions often overlooked in conventional narratives such as the Americas in the domestication of plants. The topics covered in the textbook include: descriptions and analyses of food systems histories of agricultural development with a focus on the roles of different regions major commodities such as meat grains and produce with a focus on the place of production contemporary challenges in the food system including labor disasters/conflict and climate change recent and emerging trends in food and agriculture such as lab-grown meat and vertical urban farms Geographies of Food and Power takes a synthetic approach by discussing food as something produced within an interconnected system in which labor food quality and the environment are considered together. It will be a valuable resource for students of human geography environmental geography economic geography food studies and development.

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Food Safety and Inspection An Introduction

Food Safety and Inspection An Introduction

The process of food inspection relies on an inspector's understanding of the intrinsic hazards associated with individual foods. Whereas spoilage can usually be determined through a simple organoleptic assessment the judgment of whether a food is fit for human consumption requires an evaluation of health hazards many of which may not be apparent through physical assessment. Instead the inspector must analyse and integrate scientific and handling information to evaluate the potential health risk. Adulteration of foods is also becoming an increasing problem and the complexity of the food supply chain requires an understanding of risk points to allow targeted inspection and assessment. Food Safety and Inspection: An Introduction focuses on food categories and describes common hazards associated with each using published peer-reviewed research to explain and evaluate the health risk. It is a practical textbook designed to support the role of food inspection in a modern food industry. There are seven chapters looking at specific aspects of food safety including a chapter on fraud and adulteration. This book summarises relevant published research to provide a scientific context for specific food safety issues and is an essential read for anyone interested in becoming a food inspector. | Food Safety and Inspection An Introduction

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Food and Beverage Management

Food and Beverage Management

This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its main sectors – fast food and casual dining hotels and quality restaurants and event industrial and welfare catering. It also looks at some of the important trends affecting the food and beverage industry covering consumers the environment and ethical concerns as well as developments in technology. New to this edition: New chapter: Classifying food and drink service operations. New international case studies throughout covering the latest industry developments within a wide range of businesses. Enhanced coverage of financial aspects including forecasting and menu pricing with respective examples of costings. New coverage of contemporary trends including events management use of technology use of social media in marketing customer management and environmental concerns such as sourcing sustainability and waste management. Updated companion website including new case studies PowerPoint slides multiple choice questions revision notes true or false questions short answer questions and new video and web links per chapter. It is illustrated in full colour and contains in-chapter activities as well as end-of-chapter summaries and revision questions to test the readers' knowledge as they progress. Written by a team of authors with many years of industry practice and teaching experience this book is the ideal guide to the subject for hospitality students and industry practitioners alike. | Food and Beverage Management

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts the volume illuminates the aesthetic cultural political and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.

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Food

Food

In Food John Coveney examines ‘food as … ’ identity politics industry regulation the environment justice and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life and the importance of food as life is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates personal pleasure and political power food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological social and cultural existence. In recent years interest in food has increased across the academic public and popular spheres fuelled by popular media’s constant play on the role of food and body size and food and cooking as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food we construct our social identities our families and communities. However Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food the environment and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries on which most of us must rely have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet and the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general readers alike indeed for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead it shows how influential symbolic powerful and transformative food has come to be.

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Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices

Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows within planetary constraints. As such the editors intend to map possibilities for food for degrowth to become established as a field of study. International contributors offer a range of examples and possibilities to develop more sustainable localised resilient and healthy food systems using degrowth principles of sufficiency frugal abundance security autonomy and conviviality. Chapters are clustered in parts that critically examine food for degrowth in spheres of the household collectives networks and narratives of broader activism and discourses. Themes include broadening and deepening concepts of care in food provisioning and social contexts; critically applying appropriate technologies; appreciating and integrating indigenous perspectives; challenging notions of 'waste' 'circular economies' and commodification; and addressing the ever-present impacts of market logic framed by growth. This book will be of greatest interest to students and scholars of critical food studies sustainability studies urban political ecology geography environmental studies such as environmental sociology anthropology ethnography ecological economics and urban design and planning. | Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices

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East Asia and Food (In)Security

East Asia and Food (In)Security

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions not just within East Asia but also in the region’s relations with major external actors. Many of the challenges facing East Asia are generic food security issues that face people and governments across the world – for example the implications of climate change and demographic changes on food supplies. This book places the East Asian context in the wider discussion of food (in)security in global politics. However it also identifies potential regional ‘differences’ – for example the significance of rice for the region and the unavoidable impact of China as a major regional player. What the Chinese state and Chinese companies decide to do in response to concerns about food insecurity have an impact not just on the rest of the region but on the rest of the world. Taking too much of a Sinocentric focus however ignores other actors in East Asia or merely relegates discussion to how they respond to Chinese policies or external strategies. This book considers the region as a whole both when it comes to thinking about food security challenges and responses within the region itself and also in the outward projection of regional food insecurity on the rest of the world. This book was published as a special issue of The Pacific Review. | East Asia and Food (In)Security

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Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development

Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development

Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development provides scholarly and practical knowledge on a range of issues often associated with local food system development. Many people agree that there are unintended consequences associated with the manner in which our food supply chain has evolved. These concerns range in focus from health to environment to economic structure to social justice. But for each argument critical of our current food system there are to be found strong counter-arguments; the popular press is replete with stories that lean toward taking specific sides in these arguments often demonizing those on the other side. In this volume local food scholars strive to be fair balanced and as factual as possible in their arguments. This even-handed approach is appropriate as it should foster more sustainable community change and should lead us toward a stronger foundation for scholarly inquiry and ultimately more respect and credibility for efforts to better understand the phenomenon of local and regional food system development. Amidst a deepening interest in local food systems as a community economic development strategy Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development will be of great interest to scholars of community development rural studies agriculture food systems and rural economy. The chapters originally published as a special issue of Community Development.

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Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers. While America has sufficient food to feed its entire population 38 million people are food insecure with urban communities and communities of color having long borne the brunt of food inequalities. This book traces the evolving story of food by describing the people behind food system statistics focusing on cities and suburban communities across America. In doing so it raises questions not only about food security but about a food economy that can foster justice and sustainability and combat hunger and waste. By linking human faces to the data the book reveals the many connections between food insecurity and unsustainable practices. The book concludes by discussing some of the pathways toward a more sustainable and just food system by linking the food system to the larger economy and the many sectors that are connected to food. Because of these multifaceted connections food can be a unique catalyst for creating pathways toward a more just and sustainable economy that is more aligned with nature. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food justice food security urban food and agriculture urban sustainability and sustainable food systems more broadly. | Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

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Eating Fandom Intersections Between Fans and Food Cultures

Eating Fandom Intersections Between Fans and Food Cultures

This book considers the practices and techniques fans utilize to interact with different aspects and elements of food cultures. With attention to food cultures across nations societies cultures and historical periods the collected essays consider the rituals and values of fan communities as reflections of their food culture whether in relation to particular foods or types of food those who produce them or representations of them. Presenting various theoretical and methodological approaches the anthology brings together a series of empirical studies to examine the intersection of two fields of cultural practice and will appeal to sociologists geographers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in fan studies and food cultures. | Eating Fandom Intersections Between Fans and Food Cultures

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World Population and World Food Supplies

World Population and World Food Supplies

Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it. The author concludes that the more advanced countries can be reasonably assured of food supplies for an indefinite period. The less advanced countries can no longer rely on self-contained systems: they must seek co-operation with the advanced countries to supply them with the appliances needed for a more highly developed agriculture. This book at the time gave statesmen and their scientific advisers agriculturalists and agricultural economists an invaluable new instrument. | World Population and World Food Supplies

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Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities. It brings together the best revised and updated papers from the Sixth Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference on Sustainable Food Planning. The main emphasis is on the latest research and thinking on spatial planning and design showing how urban agriculture provides opportunities to develop and enhance the spatial quality of urban environments. Chapters address various topics such as a new theoretical model for understanding urban agriculture how urban agriculture contributes to restoring our connections to nature and the limitations of the garden city concept to food security. Case studies are included from several European countries including Bulgaria France Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Spain Turkey and the UK as well as Australia Canada Cameroon Ethiopia and the United States (New York and Los Angeles). | Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

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Food and Foodways in African Narratives Community Culture and Heritage

Food and Foodways in African Narratives Community Culture and Heritage

Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life it directly impacts the community culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways including the literature and narratives of each region. Across the African continent food and foodways which refer to the ways that humans consume produce and experience food were influened by slavery and forced labor colonization foreign aid and the anxieties prompted by these encounters all of which can be traced through the ways food is seen in narratives by African and colonial storytellers. The African continent is home to thousands of cultures but nearly every one has experienced alteration of its foodways because of slavery transcontinental trade and colonization. Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community Culture and Heritage takes a careful look at these alterations as seen through African narratives throughout various cultures and spanning centuries. | Food and Foodways in African Narratives Community Culture and Heritage

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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems

This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic cultural ecological institutional legal and policy aspects of regenerative food practices. The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges related to the ways we grow distribute access eat and dispose of food. Yet there are stories of hope and opportunities for radical change towards food systems that enhance the ability of living things to co-evolve. Given this activities and imaginaries looking to improve rather than just sustain communities and ecosystems are needed as are fresh perspectives and new terminology. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems addresses this need. The chapters cover diverse practices geographies scales and entry-points. They focus not only on the core requirements to deliver sustainable agriculture and food supply but go beyond this to think about how these can also actively participate with social-ecological systems. The book is presented in an accessible way with reflection questions meant to spark discussion and debate on how to transition to safe just and healthy food systems. Taken together the chapters in this handbook highlight the consequences of current food practices and showcase the multiple ways that people are doing food differently. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems is essential reading for students and scholars interested in food systems governance and practices agroecology rural sociology and socio-environmental studies.

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Statebuilding Missions and Media Development A Context-Sensitive Approach

Statebuilding Missions and Media Development A Context-Sensitive Approach

This book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South and argues for a more adaptive and context-sensitive media development. The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding and the effects that Western-led media has in and on a newly built state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork including interviews observations and social surveys it analyses the effect media interventions has on global South countries from the population’s point of view. The findings show that in practice media development can be alien to the societies in which a free press is implemented which can lead to unintended and negative consequences for social relations in a country. While the book uses South Sudan as a case study it also presents different perspectives and shows that local views on the media are different from those of Western experts and policymakers. Therefore the book advocates taking local views seriously and an adaptive media development that is sensitive to the context in which it is set up. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding media studies development studies and international relations in general. | Statebuilding Missions and Media Development A Context-Sensitive Approach

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Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade. Yet it is a complex and multi-faceted issue requiring a broad and inter-disciplinary perspective for full understanding. This Handbook represents the most comprehensive compilation of our current knowledge of food and nutrition security from a global perspective. It is organized to reflect the wide scope of the contents its four sections corresponding to the accepted current definitional frameworks prevailing in the work of multilateral agencies and mainstream scholarship. The first section addresses the struggles and progression of ideas and debates about the subject in recent years. The other sections focus on three key themes: how food has been is and should be made available including by improvements in agricultural productivity; the ways in which politico-economic and social arenas have shaped access to food; and the effects of food and nutrition systems in addressing human health known as food utilisation. Overall the volume synthesizes a vast field of information drawn from agriculture soil science climatology economics sociology human and physical geography the nutrition and health sciences environmental science and development studies. | Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

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Food Loss and Waste Policy From Theory to Practice

Food Loss and Waste Policy From Theory to Practice

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss an issue of significant global concern with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including quantitative and qualitative techniques drawing on in-depth case studies and action research. The volume is organised into four parts: Understanding Food Loss and Waste International Programmes National Policies and Local Initiatives. The first part introduces the reader to the concept of food loss and waste how it can be measured its causes and consequences and how it can be reduced. The second part is dedicated to international and cross-country case studies with six chapters reviewing national policies implemented in France Italy Romania Japan China and the United States. In Part Four three chapters are dedicated to local food recovery and redistribution initiatives. By focusing on different territories and different levels of governance the book provides a detailed evaluation of food loss and waste policies the barriers and opportunities of implementing the policies as well as the impact they are actually having. The chapters are both descriptive and evaluative and draw out lessons for designing implementing and reforming programmes. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars working on food waste food policy sustainable food systems agricultural production and supply chains and public policy as well as policymakers involved with developing and implementing programmes and policies to regulate and reduce food waste and loss. | Food Loss and Waste Policy From Theory to Practice

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