Food Prices
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Production and Stabilization
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
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Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-08-08
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 0309210224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1980, childhood obesity rates have more than tripled in the United States. Recent data show that almost one-third of children over 2 years of age are already overweight or obese. While the prevalence of childhood obesity appears to have plateaued in recent years, the magnitude of the problem remains unsustainably high and represents an enormous public health concern. All options for addressing the childhood obesity epidemic must therefore be explored. In the United States, legal approaches have successfully reduced other threats to public health, such as the lack of passive restraints in automobiles and the use of tobacco. The question then arises of whether laws, regulations, and litigation can likewise be used to change practices and policies that contribute to obesity. On October 21, 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) held a workshop to bring together stakeholders to discuss the current and future legal strategies aimed at combating childhood obesity. Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention summarizes the proceedings of that workshop. The report examines the challenges involved in implementing public health initiatives by using legal strategies to elicit change. It also discusses circumstances in which legal strategies are needed and effective. This workshop was created only to explore the boundaries of potential legal approaches to address childhood obesity, and therefore, does not contain recommendations for the use of such approaches.
Writing Food History
Author: Kyri W. Claflin
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0857852175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies? How have other disciplines - sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, science, art history - influenced writing on food history in terms of approach, methodology, controversies, and knowledge of past foodways? Essays by twelve prominent scholars provide a compendium of global and multicultural answers to these questions. The contributors critically assess food history writing in the United States, Africa, Mexico and the Spanish Diaspora, India, the Ottoman Empire, the Far East - China, Japan and Korea - Europe, Jewish communities and the Middle East. Several historical eras are covered: the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, Early Modern Europe and the Modern day. The book is a unique addition to the growing literature on food history. It is required reading for anyone seeking a detailed discussion of food history research in diverse times and places.
Food and Western Disease
Author: Staffan Lindeberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-01-11
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1405197714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNutrition science is a highly fractionated, contentious field with rapidly changing viewpoints on both minor and major issues impacting on public health. With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can finally be coherently explored. By looking at what we know of human evolution and disease in relation to the diets that humans enjoy now and prehistorically, the book allows the reader to begin to truly understand the link between diet and disease in the Western world and move towards a greater knowledge of what can be defined as the optimal human diet. Written by a leading expert Covers all major diseases, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, stroke and dementia Details the benefits and risks associated with the Palaeolithic diet Draws conclusions on key topics including sustainable nutrition and the question of healthy eating This important book provides an exciting and useful insight into this fascinating subject area and will be of great interest to nutritionists, dietitians and other members of the health professions. Evolutionary biologists and anthropologists will also find much of interest within the book. All university and research establishments where nutritional sciences, medicine, food science and biological sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this title.
Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
Author: Matthias Kalkuhl
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 3319282018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.
Responding to the Global Food Crisis - Three perspectives: IFPRI 2007-2008 Annual Report Essay
Author: Joachim von Braun, Josette Sheeran, Namanga Ngongi
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2008-09-10
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 089629921X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChemistry and World Food Supplies: Perspectives and Recommendations CHEMRAWN 2
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Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Published:
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9711041057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood Nations
Author: Warren Belasco
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1136700692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
Author: Marc Edelman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1317424522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad banner. Despite its large and growing popularity, the history, theoretical foundations, and political program of food sovereignty have only occasionally received in-depth analysis and critical scrutiny. This collection brings together both longstanding scholars in critical agrarian studies, such as Philip McMichael, Bina Agarwal, Henry Bernstein, Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, and Marc Edelman, as well as a dynamic roster of early- and mid-career researchers. The ultimate aim is to advance this important frontier of research and organizing, and put food sovereignty on stronger footing as a mobilizing frame, a policy objective, and a plan of action for the human future. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Perspectives on Federal Retail Food Grading
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
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