Food and Famine
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Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (02 - Old Edition)
by Marion Nestle  Publisher Comments We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The...
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Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
by Lester Russell Brown Synopsis To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes...
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Changing the Face of the Waters: The Promise and Challenge of Sustainable Aquaculture (Agriculture and Rural Development)
by World Bank Publisher Comments As production from capture fisheries stagnates, aquaculture is changing the face of our waters. This book informs and provides guidance on sustainable aquaculture to decision makers in the international development community and in client countries of...
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Food for Thought: Towards a Future for Farming
by Patrick Herman Publisher Comments The French radical farmers union Confidiration Paysanne, with its charismatic leader Josi Bovi, has led the world in demonstrating the possibility of a socially progressive future for farming. Rejecting the increasing intensification and...
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Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity (Worldwatch Environmental Alert)
by Lester R Brown Publisher Comments Food scarcity is emerging as the defining issue of the new era now unfolding, much as ideological conflict was the defining issue of the historical era that recently ended. More fundamentally, food scarcity may be the first major economic manifestation...
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Food for All: The Need for a New Agriculture (Global Issues)
by John Madeley Publisher Comments John Madeley offers a new approach to agricultural production and feeding the hungry. He outlines a low-external input approach, along with a re-integration of new farming practices like organic agriculture and permaculture, and a range of “green...
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Fields That Dream
by Jenny Kurzweil Publisher Comments Fields That Dream explores the lives of refugees, immigrants, former chefs, insurance brokers, and union organizers who are now small-scale sustainable farmers. Each chapter of the book combines the story of a farmer who sells at a successful farmers...
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Bitter-Sweet Harvests for Global Supermarkets: Sustainability & Equity in Latin America's Agroexport Boon
by Lori Ann Thrupp Book News Annotation Poems that explore Powell's Southern Baptist upbringing and how that history resonates through her adult experiences of love, loss, and motherhood. Winner of the 1995 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation c. Book...
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This Land Is Their Land: How Corporate Farms Threaten the World
by Evaggel Vallianatos About the Author E.G. Vallianatos, a former US Environmental Protection Agency analyst, is the author of "Fear in the Countryside"and "Harvest of Devastation."...
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Texas A & M University Agriculture #10: Agroterrorism: A Guide for First Responders
by Jason B. Moats Synopsis "In many cases, the communities most ill-prepared to deal with . . . terrorism incidents," Jason B. Moats writes in the introduction to this book, "are the rural communities that provide ... food and crops." Having conducted training across the country...
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew
by Samuel Fromartz Publisher Comments Business writer Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew...
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Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology
by Britt Bailey Publisher Comments Engineering the Farm is a wide-ranging examination of the social and ethical issues surrounding the production and consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with leading thinkers and activists taking a broad theoretical approach to the...
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Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises
by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon Publisher Comments Outlines practical solutions to global food supply problems in the twenty-first century, suggesting relevant ways to address key issues related to food safety, conservation, global trade, and more. Original....
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Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us
by Christopher D Cook Publisher Comments If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The facts speak for themselves: more than 75 million Americans suffered from food poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them...
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Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects
by National Research Cu Publisher Comments Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater...
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Fertility & Resources
by John Landers Publisher Comments Fertility in animals directly reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans, the situation is more complex. Patterns of breast feeding, contraception and ideas about age of marriage and desired family size all affect...
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Safe Food
by Marion Nestle Publisher Comments In this controversial work, the critically acclaimed author of "Food Politics" argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures--it involves politics. Photos & line illustrations....
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Nutrient Management for Sustainable Crop Production in Asia: Proceedings
by A E Johnston Publisher Comments During the past thirty years Asia has seen substantial increases in crop yields due to advances in plant breeding and the use of nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers. Whether this Green Revolution can continue to keep up with population growth remains...
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Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine
by Stan Cox Publisher Comments Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalization's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world....
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Mirage :the false promise of desert agriculture
by Russell Al Clemings Book News Annotation Environmental and science reporter Clemings documents the ecological disasters that have followed the building of dams and the irrigation of vast areas of desert for agriculture. He traces the history of the early projects in British Imperial India...
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