Sustainable Appetite: Redefining Food Production for the Planet
Sustainable Appetite: Redefining Food Production for the Planet

Author: Shu Chen Hou

Publisher: Shu Chen Hou

Published:

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13:

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Introducing "Sustainable Appetite: Redefining Food Production for the Planet” 🌱 Are you ready to be a part of the change our planet urgently needs? Discover the groundbreaking book that unveils a transformative journey towards a sustainable food future—"Sustainable Appetite: Redefining Food Production for the Planet.” 🌍 In a world grappling with environmental challenges, food scarcity, and the undeniable impact of our choices, this book is your guide to understanding and embracing a food system that nourishes both people and the planet. 🍽️ Explore the World of Sustainable Food: Dive into a comprehensive exploration of the global food production challenge, the staggering environmental impact of conventional practices, and the undeniable need for sustainable solutions. With meticulously researched insights, this book reveals how our food choices can redefine the world around us. 🌿 Uncover Innovative Solutions: Discover innovative practices that promise to revolutionize how we produce, distribute, and consume food. From agroecology and urban farming to lab-grown alternatives and circular economies, "Sustainable Appetite" offers a glimpse into the future of food production. 🛤️ Navigate Challenges and Solutions: Delve into the complexities of economic constraints, technological limitations, consumer awareness, and policy changes. This book equips you with actionable strategies to address these challenges and drive meaningful change. 🤝 Join the Movement: Embrace your role in shaping a more sustainable food future. Through compelling case studies, empowering consumer choices, and effective policy advocacy, "Sustainable Appetite" empowers you to become an agent of transformation. 📚 Order Your Copy Today: 🌟 Empower yourself with knowledge that empowers the planet. 🌟 Be part of a movement that redefines how we nourish ourselves and our world. 🌟 Embrace sustainable practices that create a brighter future for generations to come. Step into the pages of "Sustainable Appetite: Redefining Food Production for the Planet" and discover how every choice you make can be a step towards a thriving and resilient global food system. 🌎 Order Now and Be Part of the Solution! 🌱

Rethinking Food and Agriculture
Rethinking Food and Agriculture

Author: Amir Kassam

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing

Published: 2020-10-18

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0128164115

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Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food and Agriculture reviews, reassesses and reimagines the current food and agriculture system and the narrow paradigm in which it operates. Rethinking Food and Agriculture explores and uncovers some of the key historical, ethical, economic, social, cultural, political, and structural drivers and root causes of unsustainability, degradation of the agricultural environment, destruction of nature, short-comings in science and knowledge systems, inequality, hunger and food insecurity, and disharmony. It reviews efforts towards 'sustainable development', and reassesses whether these efforts have been implemented with adequate responsibility, acceptable societal and environmental costs and optimal engagement to secure sustainability, equity and justice. The book highlights the many ways that farmers and their communities, civil society groups, social movements, development experts, scientists and others have been raising awareness of these issues, implementing solutions and forging 'new ways forward', for example towards paradigms of agriculture, natural resource management and human nutrition which are more sustainable and just. Rethinking Food and Agriculture proposes ways to move beyond the current limited view of agro-ecological sustainability towards overall sustainability of the food and agriculture system based on the principle of 'inclusive responsibility'. Inclusive responsibility encourages ecosystem sustainability based on agro-ecological and planetary limits to sustainable resource use for production and livelihoods. Inclusive responsibility also places importance on quality of life, pluralism, equity and justice for all and emphasises the health, well-being, sovereignty, dignity and rights of producers, consumers and other stakeholders, as well as of nonhuman animals and the natural world. - Explores some of the key drivers and root causes of unsustainability , degradation of the agricultural environment and destruction of nature - Highlights the many ways that different stakeholders have been forging 'new ways forward' towards alternative paradigms of agriculture, human nutrition and political economy, which are more sustainable and just - Proposes ways to move beyong the current unsustainable exploitation of natural resources towards agroecological sustainability and overall sustainability of the food and agriculture system based on 'inclusive responsibility'

Cultivating Food Justice
Cultivating Food Justice

Author: Alison Hope Alkon

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0262016265

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Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

How to Feed the World
How to Feed the World

Author: Jessica Eise

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1610918843

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By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How will we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population, water, land, climate change, technology, food systems, trade, food waste and loss, health, social buy-in, communication, and equal access to food, the book reveals a complex web of challenges. Contributors unite from different perspectives and disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to economics. The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system.

Nourished Planet
Nourished Planet

Author: Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1610918940

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Nourished Planet illustrates what our global food system can be - a collection of the smartest ideas to nourish us all. From urban farmers in Kenya to American doctors to government officials in Egypt, its voices demonstrate how diverse perspectives are coming together to feed the world sustainably.--back cover.

Sustainable Intensification
Sustainable Intensification

Author: Jules N. Pretty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1136529276

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Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.

Eat for the Planet
Eat for the Planet

Author: Nil Zacharias

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1683352300

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“An indispensable guide for anyone who wants to live to age 100—by making sure there’s a livable world when you get there.” —Dan Buettner, New York Times–bestselling author of The Blue Zones Do you consider yourself an environmental ally? Maybe you recycle your household goods, ride a bike, and avoid too much air travel. But did you know that the primary driver of climate change isn’t plastics, or cars, or airplanes? Did you know that it’s actually our industrialized food system? In this fascinating new book, authors Nil Zacharias and Gene Stone share new research, intriguing infographics, and compelling arguments that support what scientists across the world are beginning to affirm and uphold: By making even minimal dietary changes, anyone can have a positive, lasting impact on our planet. If you love the planet, the only way to save it is by switching out meat for plant-based meals, one bite at a time. “This fascinating, easy-to-read book will give you still another reason to eat plants and not animals: you will be doing a world of good—literally!” —Rip Esselstyn, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Plant-Strong “Eating plants is not just good for your own health, it’s imperative for the health of the planet. This well-argued, well-written book makes it clear why everyone should consider a plant-based diet today.” —Michael Greger, MD, New York Times–bestselling author of How Not to Die “Possibly the single most important environmental book I’ve read in years. A must for everyone.” —Kathy Freston, New York Times–bestselling author of The Lean

Comfortably Unaware
Comfortably Unaware

Author: Richard Oppenlander

Publisher: Beaufort Books

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0825306221

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In Comfortably Unaware, Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of global depletion as it relates to food choice. We should all be committed, he tells us, to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our environment, and seek food products that are in the best interest of all living things. His forthright information and stark mental images are often disturbing-and that's how it should be. As the guardians of Planet Earth, we need to be shaken out of our complacency, to stop being comfortably unaware, and to understand the measures we must take to ensure the health and well-being of our planet-and of ourselves. Oppenlander

Global Food Insecurity
Global Food Insecurity

Author: Mohamed Behnassi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9400708904

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Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge is even more crucial given that we have not yet come close to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger. Scientists and relevant stakeholders are now voicing a clear message: that multiple challenges the world is facing require innovative, multifaceted, science-based, technological, economic and political approaches in theoretical thinking, decision making and action. With this background central to survival and well-being, the purpose of this volume is to formulate and promote relevant theoretical analysis and policy recommendations. The major perspective of this publication is that paradigm and policy shifts at all levels are needed urgently. This is based on the evidence that agriculture in the 21st century will be undergoing significant demands, arising largely from the need to increase the global food enterprise, while adjusting and contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Global Food Insecurity aims at providing structure to effect achievement of this critically needed roadmap.