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Author: Geoff Tansey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136553924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical book highlights the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Additionally it covers negotiations in the World Trade Organization, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Food and Agriculture Organization and various other international bodies.
Author: Wenonah Hauter
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1595587942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A meticulously researched tour de force” on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers’ markets to find fixes (Publishers Weekly). Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America’s food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the control of food production by a handful of large corporations—backed by political clout—that prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices people can make in the grocery store. Blending history, reporting, and a deep understanding of farming and food production, Foodopoly is a shocking, revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains, and milk most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health-conscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. Foodopoly shows how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities to famines overseas, and argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift—a change that is about politics, not just personal choice.
Author: Geoff Tansey
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1844074307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Caleb Harper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published:
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1501158864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at MIT’s Media Lab, the fascinating story of how digital technology is revolutionizing the way we feed the planet, offering surprising solutions to the global food crisis and redefining what it means to be a farmer. By the middle of this century, we will have nine billion people to feed and nobody who wants to be a farmer. From climate change to pollution, from controversies over GMOs to shrinking water supplies, our current system of feeding the planet is breaking down, delivering less nutritious food to fewer people, making both food insecurity and food waste increasingly commonplace. While the problem is clear, the solutions have been more difficult to recognize. Now, thanks to Caleb Harper and his Open Ag initiative, a revolution in agriculture is taking place. Inspired to rethink the fundamentals of farming during a visit to Japan in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Caleb returned to the MIT Media Lab and started growing lettuce in Dixie cups. While his peers were focused on self-driving cars and robots, Caleb was building an entire farm in the basement of the Media Lab. In the perfectly controlled conditions of his farm, he was able to carefully monitor all the variables that affect a plant’s growth and health—water, light, CO2, nutrients, temperature. Using machine learning to analyze the vast amount of data being collecting, he created “climate recipes” for growing the healthiest, tastiest, most sustainable produce in history, anywhere in the world. With the invention of a “personal food computer”/grow-box that he has shared with school children and scientists across the globe, Caleb Harper has laid the foundation for an entirely new model of food production with limitless possibilities. Fascinating, revelatory, and filled with groundbreaking research and ideas, this book shows how the power of one man’s determination and vision are revolutionizing how we will plant, grow, and consume food now and far into the future.
Author: Brian J. Ford
Publisher:
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780500280751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur future depends on food: it controls our health, underpins social structures, and helps dictate the political agenda. Among the crucial issues discussed in this challenging study of food by the eminent biologist Brian J. Ford are new food-borne diseases and the dietary needs of the young, the elderly, and women. He examines the complex questions of genetically modified food and provides important insights into food intolerance and life-threatening allergies, the relationship between food and culture, organic farming, the impact of climate change, and how revolutionary new foods will change the world.
Author: Frederick Le Gros CLARK (M.A.)
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 15
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marlynne Hopper
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789251055366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood safety and quality are essential for food security, public health and economic development. These guidelines have been developed by the FAO, in collaboration with the WHO, to assist countries to identify capacity building needs in the core components of a national food control system, in relation to: food control management; legislation; inspection; official food control laboratories; food safety and quality information, education and communication.
Author: Paul F. Davis
Publisher: Global Reform to Improve the Q
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781521271599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Reformation to improve Food Safety Regulation, Waste Reduction and Nutrition One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, which if mitigated could reduce the cost of food, poverty and improve global health. The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounts for 36 of the 57 million deaths globally (63%) causing cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. NCDs however are largely preventable by altering dietary habits and lifestyle. Nearly 1 in 4 Americans are projected to die from cancer with 1 in 3 developing some form of cancer over their lifetime. The Center for Disease Control reports every year 48 million Americans, 1 in 6, are made sick by foodborne pathogens, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases. A pathway for pathogens, foodborne illness can weaken immunity, cause mental disorders, organ failure (liver and kidneys), and cripple an economy. Two-thirds of adults living in the United States are overweight or obese and about a third of children and adolescents between the ages of 6 to 19 are overweight or obese. The U.S. food industry accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars in imports and exports. If the nations of the world do not establish their own food policies, systems and plans to pursue good health; their societies will be adversely impacted by global food entering their borders from America. Hazard identification, transparent and traceable labeling, and sustainable agricultural practices to protect the ecosystem and public health are needed. Consumer information, organization and citizen participation must be enhanced to improve civil society and food safety. The current food regulatory system in the U.S. is contributing to global uncertainty, food insecurity and poor health. Food insecurity is occurring on a global scale due to use of pesticides, herbicides, excitotoxins, food additives, preservatives, hormones, steroids, antibiotics, genetic manipulation, solvents, and chemicals in "food" processing. When food becomes adulterated, nations must respond quickly and be proactive to protect public health. By comparing the food regulatory systems of the world and examining different approaches to food safety to protect public health, insight can be gained to reform and improve food safety and protect public health. Paul F Davis is a Global Health Coach, Wellness Trainer, Disease Prevention Speaker and Food Consultant who has touched 76 Nations empowering people to naturally heal their bodies and achieve personal wellness body-mind-spirit. The author of several books Paul studied Global Affairs at NYU, Global Food Law at MSU and Nutrition for Disease Prevention with USF. Paul serves the food and tourism industries providing destination marketing, culinary creations and wellness seminars.
Author: Carlo Petrini
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0847847217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world, the movement has created a powerful force for change. The essential argument of this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves, they can be free. In other words, if people can regain control over access to their food—how it is produced, by whom, and how it is distributed—then that can lead to a greater empowerment in all channels of life. Whether in the Amazon jungle talking with tribal elders or on rice paddies in rural Indonesia, the author engages the reader through the excitement of his journeys and the passion of his mission. Here, Petrini reports upon some of the success stories that he has observed firsthand. From Chiapas to Puglia, Morocco to North Carolina, he has witnessed the many ways different peoples have dealt with food problems. This book allows us to learn from these case studies and lays out models for the future.
