Agriculture & Food

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042895Author Josh BersonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193926949Author Praveen JhaFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 740gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 166mm * 34mm

The United States is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, so U.S. policies have big effects on global food security and other global public goods linked to agriculture. On the positive side of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787353787Author Yves CabannesFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 890g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620230169Author Tara Layman-WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atlantic Publishing CoPublisher Atlantic Publishing CoWeight(grams) 350g

This book examines how processes and rhetoric surrounding a specific food product-and food culture as a whole-shape the food appearing on our plates and how they impact people's health and market dynamics. The book takes an in-depth look at barbecue...

Comfort Food explores this concept with examples taken from Atlantic Canadians, Indonesians, the English in Britain, and various ethnic, regional, and religious populations as well as rural and urban residents in the United States. This volume includes...

The pepper fruit is commonly consumed as fresh fruit. In addition, the fruit is used in food industry and in manufacture processing, either fermented or concentrated. The pepper fruit is a rich source of bioactive compounds with antioxidant properties to...

This book brings together a selection of studies written by specialists from universities and/or research institutions from every continent. The processes of change in systems of production, commercialisation, and consumption of food, as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307987037Author Jayson LuskFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874746051Author Brian W.J. LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195055951Author Madhura SwaminathanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 666g

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems. Marc Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers'...

Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people in the stories. John Brueggemann interviewed dozens of farmers, chefs, non-profit managers, consumers,...

Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised...

Everybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolina-a midsized city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top...

Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by improving access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research in Greenville, SC, Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods. Outsiders...

Food is a social phenomenon: it keeps us alive, influences our identity and creates social codes and values. Food and food preparation is no longer simply a question of sustenance, but of lifestyle as well. At the same time, however, agriculture and the...

Across the United States marginalized communities are organizing to address social, economic, and environmental inequities through building community food systems rooted in the principles of social justice. But how exactly are communities doing this...

An anthropologist uncovers how "great coffee" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers. What justifies the steep prices commanded by small-batch, high-end Third Wave...

Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws,...

Long-held associations between women, home, food, and cooking are beginning to unravel as, in a growing number of households, men are taking on food and cooking responsibilities. At the same time, men's public foodwork continues to gain attention in the...

Why are people getting fatter in the United States and beyond? Mainstream explanations argue that people simply eat too much "energy-dense" food while exercising too little. By swapping the chips and sodas for fruits and vegetables and...

This textbook provides students with a comprehensive introduction to organic food and farming. Janet Chrzan, Jacqueline A. Ricotta and contributors explain organic food and organic farming principles; the history of organics; how organic food is grown,...

This comprehensive and authoritative one-stop resource examines the issue of food insecurity in the United States, including the various economic, social, political, and cultural factors that drive the problem. Social welfare agencies, schools, food...

1) This is a volume in honour of Professor R. Ramanna, doyen of Agricultural Economics in India. 2) It presents a comprehensive overview of range of concepts and methods from farm management and production economics on the one hand to natural resources...

This title was first published in 2003. he public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization, claiming that a...

Green lifestyles and ethical consumption have become increasingly popular strategies in moving towards environmentally-friendly societies and combating global poverty. Where previously environmentalists saw excess consumption as central to the problem,...

Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food has changed dramatically. Yet - despite significant advances in gender equality - food and femininity remain closely connected in the public imagination as well as the emotional lives...

With dual-working households now the norm, Food, Families and Work is the first comprehensive study to explore how families negotiate everyday food practices in the context of paid employment. As the working hours of British parents are among the...

This impressive volume based on an original interdisciplinary and cross-national approach to the study of beer and brewing ...will not only make an important contribution to our knowledge of beer and brewing, but also of drinking cultures and historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807047330Author Mark WinneFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

There's a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation's school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap, precooked hamburger patties and chicken nuggets chock-full of industrial fillers. Yet it's no secret...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062390998Author Sophie EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint William Morrow PaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin. Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies...

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings...

Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological...

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese...

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that...