Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment – serie
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Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning
Av Rob Roggema
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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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 …
Soybean Through World History
Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems
Av Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Lisa Deutsch
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of …
Urban Food Planning
Seeds of Transition in the Global North
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade. It sheds light on cities as new spaces for food system innovation and on …
Food Consumption in the City
Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific
Av Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a …
Feeding Cities
Improving local food access, security, and resilience
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, …
Eating Traditional Food
Politics, identity and practices
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Due to its centrality in human activities, food is a meaningful object that necessarily participates in any cultural, social and ideological construction and its qualification as 'traditional' is a politically laden value. This book demonstrates that traditionality as attributed to foods goes …
Transforming Gender and Food Security in the Global South
Av Jemimah Njuki, John Parkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of …
Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation
Country case studies
Av Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline – "Democracy, good governance, human …
Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space
La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Vía Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene. This book explores the internationalisation of the movement, with a specific focus on the engagement of peasants …
Bioeconomy Approach
Constraints and Opportunities for Sustainable Development
Inbunden, 2020
2519 kr
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This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society. The main objective of bioeconomy is to promote economic development, by creating jobs and enhancing the sustainable utilization of bio-resources. A primary …
Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
Av Naomi Hossain, Patta Scott-Villiers
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book …
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities
Av Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
744 kr
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Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader …
Raw Veganism
The Philosophy of The Human Diet
Av Carlo Alvaro
Inbunden, 2020
2594 kr
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Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it, this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet.With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done, this book argues that the best solution to health, …
Raw Veganism
The Philosophy of The Human Diet
Av Carlo Alvaro
Häftad, 2020
579 kr
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Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it, this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet.With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done, this book argues that the best solution to health, …
Food, Senses and the City
Av Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in …
Holiday Hunger in the UK
Local Responses to Childhood Food Insecurity
Av Michael A. Long, Margaret Anne Defeyter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom. The book begins by outlining the history and scope of holiday hunger – the condition that occurs when a child’s household is, or will become, food insecure during the summer …
True Cost Accounting for Food
Balancing the Scale
Av Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
562 kr
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This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme …
True Cost Accounting for Food
Balancing the Scale
Av Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme …
Localizing Global Food
Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges
Av Agni Kalfagianni, Sophia Skordili
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated.This book reviews and …
Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
Av Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an …
Food and Cooking Skills Education
Why teach people how to cook?
Av Anita Tull
Häftad, 2020
670 kr
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Food and Cooking Skills Education (FCSE) is a complex mix of policy and practicality, educational theory and pedagogy, classroom and government policy. This book shows how FCSE has been at the centre of a tussle between education and policy for decades. It reviews how FCSE has grappled with various …
Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance
Av Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements.As global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a more active role in building social …
Seafood Supply Chains
Governance, Power and Regulation
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance.The governance of marine fisheries has been a contested issue for decades with increasing …
Risk and Food Safety in China and Japan
Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights
Av Louis Augustin-Jean, Jean Pierre Poulain
Häftad, 2020
740 kr
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Around the world, food has probably never been as safe as it is today. However, periodic crises have aroused consumer anxiety and contributed to a general lack of confidence in the agro-industrial system. The diverse nature of these crises increases governments’ and industry difficulties in …
Food, Senses and the City
Av Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in …
Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics
Av Alana Mann
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative dimensions of resistance by food movements. Voice and participation are argued by the author to be the means through which rural and urban communities …
Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable. We offer strategies for achieving sustainable food systems without having to forgo …
Food Security Governance
Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations
Av Nora McKeon
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
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This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global food governance. Today’s food system generates hunger alongside of food waste, burgeoning health problems, massive greenhouse gas emissions. Applying food system analysis to review how the …
Food Security Governance
Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations
Av Nora McKeon
Häftad, 2015
691 kr
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This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global food governance. Today’s food system generates hunger alongside of food waste, burgeoning health problems, massive greenhouse gas emissions. Applying food system analysis to review how the …
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities
Av Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader …
