Agriculture & Food

The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflictnearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the...

Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about...

Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates...

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ‘war on obesity’ levelled at...

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children in Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children,...

Human beings require nourishment for the body, mind, and soul. To nourish tomorrow demands sustainable, clean and healthy food, water, air, healthcare, energy, living quarters, communities, and governance for everyone. This volume brings together...

This book aims to develop a political history of Italian 'good food' on national television, and the central role of food in Italian culture. The focus is highly original and this is a unique interdisciplinary study at the intersection between food...

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders and...

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and...

The lives of women in rural India cannot be visualized without agriculture and allied activities. As per census 2011 figures, four out of five women workers in rural India work as agriculture workers, as owner cultivators or as wage workers.This research...

As the world population increases, food security is a major global issue. This book provides an in-depth examination of the three necessary conditions for the achievement of food security: (1) availability of food; (2) adequate incomes and (3) increasing...

This important book "weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative" (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and nutritional disparities in America, illuminating exactly how inequality...

This book examines the different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India. It situates the 2020-2021 farmer resistance movement within the wider context of India's post-independent development trajectory and provides a thorough analysis of...

This book examines the political and economic dimensions of food security in Bangladesh and assesses the role of the state in meeting the challenges of food security. The key concern, which is at the heart of this study, is to explore how Bangladesh...

Quinoa's new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity...

Taking its lead from the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe (Arts and Crafts Museum) in Hamburg, the Kunstgewerbemuseum of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is now also being converted into an artistic-scientific testing ground. In this experimental environment,...

Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies.Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451666748Author Melanie WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413146Author David Waltner-ToewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

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...

This book will speak to academic and general audiences alike, particularly health and nutritional specialists and anybody with an interest in food and agriculture.Book InformationISBN 9780774825528Author Anthony WinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the "Land of Famine." Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern economies and...

Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices - whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner or a sit-down meal - serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes makes the...

What if there were a way to halt climate change and end global hunger at the same time? The solution is right under our feet. Regenesis is an exhilarating journey into a new possible future for food, people and the planet. Drawing on the revelatory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250863096Author Dan SaladinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 137g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170004Author Michael BrownleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195055906Author R. RamakumarFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 978gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 162mm * 38mm

Sustainable Development and Pathways for Food Ecosystems: Integration and Synergies is a science-based reference which explores the roles played by agri-food ecosystems, their functions and needs, and the importance of the interdependencies among them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773634821Author Evan BownessFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

SDG2 links food security, nutrition and a sustainable but climate resilient agriculture. This multi-dimensional goal encompasses several specific targets and indicators, aimed at ending hunger, improving nutrition and achieving food security through...

Beer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage’s deep connections to place. At another level, Beer Places is an academic analysis of these geographical ties. Collected into sections...

Quinoa's new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity...

Written by one of the leading experts on food activism, this is the only independent, full-length study of the Slow Food movement. Slow Food is a grassroots organisation that embraces a slow way of life, linking the love of food with community and...

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...

This title was first published in 2003.The 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...

Lessons from the Hindu culture are used to teach the world methods of sustainability.Book InformationISBN 9780813187198Author A. Whitney SanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of...

In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542821Author Michael F. JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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,...

Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits-and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream-is...