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  1. Integrating Food into Urban Planning
    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active... more

     

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities.

    While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo.

    By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.

     
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    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Development studies; Food & society; Urban communities; Sociology; Food security & supply; Sustainability; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: food; planning; urban; food security
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (376 p.)
  2. Hidden Hunger : Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
    Author: Kimura, Aya Hirata
    Published: 20130122
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient... more

     

    For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields. This hidden hunger was presented as a scientific problem to be solved by “experts” and scientifically engineered smart foods rather than through local knowledge, which was deemed unscientific and, hence, irrelevant.

     

    In Hidden Hunger, Aya Hirata Kimura explores this recent emphasis on micronutrients and smart foods within the international development community and, in particular, how the voices of women were silenced despite their expertise in food purchasing and preparation.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780801467691; 9780801467684
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: Sociology; NGOs; food policy; asia; indonesia; women; development; nutrition; Golden rice; Micronutrient; Wheat flour
  3. Reimagining Marginalized Foods : Global Processes, Local Places
    Contributor: Finnis, Elizabeth (Publisher)
    Published: 20120401
    Publisher:  University of Arizona Press

    This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices that of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures. Contributors are... more

     

    This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices that of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures. Contributors are particularly interested in how these foods intersect with politics, nationhood and governance, identity, authenticity, and conservation.

     
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    Contributor: Finnis, Elizabeth (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816539239
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: Anthropology; foodways; globalization; culinary tourism; indigenous food; cultural studies; anthropology; sociology; global studies; ethnography; food
  4. Knowledge Sovereignty Among African Cattle Herders
    Author: Fre, Zeremarian
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable... more

     

    Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable development. The strong bonds between the Beni-Amer, their animals, and their environment constitute the basis of their ways of knowing, and much of their knowledge system is built on experience and embedded in their cultural practices.

     

    In this book, the first to study Beni-Amer practices, Zeremariam Fre argues for the importance of their knowledge, challenging the preconceptions that regard it as untrustworthy when compared to scientific knowledge from more developed regions. Empirical evidence suggests that there is much one could learn from the other, since elements of pastoralist technology, such as those related to animal production and husbandry, make a direct contribution to our knowledge of livestock production. It is this potential for hybridisation, as well as the resilience of the herders, at the core of the indigenous knowledge system.

     
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  5. Forests and Food : Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes
    Contributor: Mansourian, Stephanie (Publisher); Vira, Bhaskar (Publisher); Wildburger, Christoph (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country... more

     

    "As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. Forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger. Forests and trees can be managed to provide better and more nutritionally-balanced diets, greater control over food inputs – particularly during lean seasons and periods of vulnerability (especially for marginalised groups) – and deliver ecosystem services for crop production. However forests are undergoing a rapid process of degradation, a complex process that governments are struggling to reverse. This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits. Forests and Food is essential reading for researchers, students, NGOs and government departments responsible for agriculture, forestry, food security and poverty alleviation around the globe."

     
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    Contributor: Mansourian, Stephanie (Publisher); Vira, Bhaskar (Publisher); Wildburger, Christoph (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: agriculture; ecology; forests; malnutrition; hunger; nutrition; environment; food; Agroforestry; Food and Agriculture Organization; Food security; Shifting cultivation
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  6. Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
    Author: Roncaglia, Sara
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate... more

     

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" – a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating – Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level. The publication of this book is financed by the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website unglue.it

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: india; food culture; dabbawalas; food industry; food distribution; mumbai; co-operative; gastrosemantics; Dabbawala; India; Mumbai
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  7. Body, Personhood and Privacy: Perspectives on the Cultural Other and Human Experience
    Contributor: Tasa, Monika (Publisher); Västrik, Ergo-Hart (Publisher); Kannike, Anu (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key... more

     

    This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key issues: dialogue with the cultural Other, the appropriation of space, and personality. Human embodiment and ethical aspects of representing and regulating cultural practices are a major focus through much of the volume. The book is illustrated with some of the finest examples of Tartu street art.

     
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  8. Culinary Turn : Aesthetic Practice of Cookery
    Contributor: van der Meulen, Nicolaj (Publisher); Wiesel, Jörg (Publisher)
    Published: 20170430
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice – in turn, cooks are... more

     

    Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice – in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that go with an artistic self-image. This development is accompanied by a philosophy of cooking as a speculative cultural technique. This volume investigates the dimensions of a new culinary turn, combining for the very first time contributions from the theory and practice of cooking.

     
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    Contributor: van der Meulen, Nicolaj (Publisher); Wiesel, Jörg (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839430316
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: Sociology; Culinary Turn; Aesthetic Practice; Gastronomy; Nova-regio-cooking; Nutrition; Culinary Arts; Convivium; Culture; Aesthetics; Food Studies; Cultural Studies
  9. The Scarcity Slot : Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana
    Author: Logan, Amanda L.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed... more

     

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

    The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of "the scarcity slot," a kind of Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past with major implications for the future.

     
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  10. Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change : Experiences from Rural Latin America
    Contributor: Finan, Timothy J. (Publisher); Burke, Brian J. (Publisher); Vásquez-Léon, Marcela (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University of Arizona Press

    "Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change" presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant... more

     

    "Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change" presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant communities. Reporting on successes and failures of these cooperative efforts, the contributors offer analyses and strategies for supporting collective grassroots interests. Illustrating how poverty and inequality affect rural people, they reveal how cooperative organizations can support grassroots development strategies while negotiating local contexts of inequality amid the broader context of international markets and global competition.

     

    The contributors explain the key desirable goals from cooperative efforts among smallholder producers. They are to provide access to more secure livelihoods, expand control over basic resources and commodity chains, improve quality of life in rural areas, support community infrastructure, and offer social spaces wherein small farmers can engage politically in transforming their own communities.

     

    The stories in "Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change" reveal immense opportunities and challenges. Although cooperatives have often been framed as alternatives to the global capitalist system, they are neither a panacea nor the hegemonic extension of neoliberal capitalism. Through one of the most thorough cross-country comparisons of cooperatives to date, this volume shows the unfiltered reality of cooperative development in highly stratified societies, with case studies selected specifically because they offer important lessons regarding struggles and strategies for adapting to a changing social, economic, and natural environment.

     
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  11. Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
    Contributor: Battersby, Jane (Publisher); Watson, Vanessa (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book presents the findings of an international collaborative research project that aimed to improve our understanding of the connections between urban poverty, food systems, household food security and governance, by focusing on three secondary... more

     

    This book presents the findings of an international collaborative research project

    that aimed to improve our understanding of the connections between

    urban poverty, food systems, household food security and governance, by focusing

    on three secondary cities in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa.

     
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    Contributor: Battersby, Jane (Publisher); Watson, Vanessa (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781138726758; 9781315191195
    Subjects: Food & society; Central government; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: Food security; Food supply; Government policy; Poverty; Urbanization; Africa; Kenya; Kisumu; Kitwe
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
  12. Mot bedre vitende i norsk matsektor
    Contributor: Steen, Frode (Publisher); Pettersen, Ivar (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), Oslo

    "The Norwegian food market engenders strong opinions and substantial media attention, with questions regarding agricultural regulations, competition between retail food chains, and the relationship between chains and their suppliers fueling debate.... more

     

    "The Norwegian food market engenders strong opinions and substantial media attention, with questions regarding agricultural regulations, competition between retail food chains, and the relationship between chains and their suppliers fueling debate. Meanwhile the country’s politicians call for greater intervention.

     

    Much of the debate can seem to be happening “against our better judgment”. Vague assumptions about the state of the food sector, paired with a strong political will to apply initiatives, is reason enough to look closer at the situation.

     

    This anthology provides an up-to-date factual assessment of the entire value chain in the food market. Central topics include development of productivity in the various segments of the food chain, price differences between different countries, and effects of Norway’s tariff system. The book presents new contributions concerning the structure of the market, access to food stores and the significance of brand names, and especially to the kind of bargaining tactics employed between food chains and suppliers, with an overview of how their negotiations are carried out and possibilities for regulatory measures afforded under existing laws.

     

    Against Better Judgment in the Norwegian Food Sector confirms existing knowledge and presents new findings that deserve attention from the sector itself, the media and public authorities. The book will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the Norwegian food sector and take part in its further development.

     

    The book’s chapters have been written by seven researchers with lengthy experience in the field, and edited by Frode Steen, a professor in the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics, and Ivar Pettersen, a senior advisor at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research." "Det norske matmarkedet er preget av sterke meninger og stor medieoppmerksomhet. Spørsmål som reguleringer i jordbruket, konkurranse mellom dagligvarekjeder og forholdet mellom kjeder og leverandører skaper debatt. Samtidig etterlyser landets politikere en mer intensiv bruk av virkemidler.

     

    Mye av debatten kan synes å skje «mot bedre vitende». Uklare oppfatninger om tilstanden i matsektoren, koblet med en sterk politisk vilje til å gjøre tiltak, gir grunn til å se nærmere på situasjonsbeskrivelsen.

     

    Denne boken gir et oppdatert faktagrunnlag om hele verdikjeden i matmarkedet. Sentrale tema er produktivitetsutvikling i de ulike leddene i matkjeden, prisforskjeller mellom ulike land og effekter av det norske tollvernet. Boken presenterer nye bidrag rundt markedsstruktur, butikktilgjengelighet og merkevarens betydning. Forhandlingsspillet mellom kjeder og leverandører vies stor plass, med innføring i hvordan forhandlingene foregår samt hvilke muligheter eksisterende lovverk gir for regulerende tiltak.

     

    Mot bedre vitende i norsk matsektor bekrefter eksisterende kunnskap og frembringer nye funn som fortjener oppmerksomhet fra bransje, medier og myndigheter. Boken vil være nyttig for alle som ønsker å forstå norsk matsektor og delta i den videre utformingen av denne.

     

    Boken inneholder bidrag fra syv forskere med lang fartstid på feltet. Den er redigert av Frode Steen, professor ved Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi ved Norges Handelshøyskole, og Ivar Pettersen, seniorrådgiver ved Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi."

     
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    Contributor: Steen, Frode (Publisher); Pettersen, Ivar (Publisher)
    Language: Norwegian
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Food & society; Economics
    Other subjects: Norwegian food market; food chain; market structure; Norwegian food sector; Det norske matmarkedet; verdikjede; dagligvarehandel; matkjeden; norsk matsektor
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  13. The Scarcity Slot : Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana
    Author: Logan, Amanda L.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of “the scarcity slot,” a kind of othering based on presumed differences in... more

     

    The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of “the scarcity slot,” a kind of othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past, with major implications for the future. “This book offers a pathbreaking archaeological ethnography of food in a region of West Africa that has experienced some of the most cataclysmic sociopolitical upheavals the world has ever seen. Amanda Logan dismantles the dominant narrative that Columbian Exchange crop introductions rescued a continent long shaped by hunger. This brilliant study elevates archaeology’s contributions to African food history and food insecurity studies.” JUDITH CARNEY, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World “The Scarcity Slot is an accessible, empirically grounded history demonstrating for students of Africa’s futures the urgent need to understand her pasts.” KATHRYN M. DE LUNA, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University “A radical shift from the old ways of doing the archaeology of diet, this book breaks ground for a new food archaeology. A truly innovative and exciting work and a convincing antidote to the popular image of Africa as a continent of famine.” RICHARD WILK, Distinguished Professor and Provost’s Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Anthropology; Food & society
    Other subjects: Anthropology; Food Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (246 p.)
  14. Manger en ville : Regards socio-anthropologiques d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie
    Contributor: Soula, Audrey (Publisher); Yount-André, Chelsie (Publisher); Lepiller, Olivier (Publisher); Bricas, Nicolas (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  éditions Quae

    Cet ouvrage expose les changements des habitudes alimentaires dans des villes d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie. À travers l’étude des pratiques et des représentations alimentaires de citadins, il montre l’insuffisance d’une analyse de ces... more

     

    Cet ouvrage expose les changements des habitudes alimentaires dans des villes d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie. À travers l’étude des pratiques et des représentations alimentaires de citadins, il montre l’insuffisance d’une analyse de ces changements en termes d’occidentalisation, d’uniformisation, de « transition » ou de convergence vers un modèle qui se généraliserait. Menées dans les villes des Suds, les enquêtes révèlent que les citadins inventent de nouvelles formes d’alimentation à partir d’une multiplicité de références locales et/ou exogènes. Le garba abidjanais ou le bâbenda ouagalais sont autant d’exemples de l’invention de cuisines urbaines. Les auteurs des chapitres sont chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales, originaires d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie où ils travaillent. Ils invitent le lecteur à porter un regard sur l’alimentation citadine des Suds, loin des idées reçues sur la pauvreté, la santé ou encore la responsabilité individuelle des mangeurs. Ce livre intéressera un public scientifique d’enseignants et de professionnels des systèmes alimentaires, et un lectorat s’intéressant aux dynamiques sociales et culturelles urbaines et à l’élaboration de théories sociologiques et anthropologiques venant des Suds.

     
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    Contributor: Soula, Audrey (Publisher); Yount-André, Chelsie (Publisher); Lepiller, Olivier (Publisher); Bricas, Nicolas (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-2-7592-3091-4
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: Africa; food; Latin America; Asia; consumer
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (172 p.)
  15. Moral Foods : The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
    Contributor: Caldwell, Melissa L. (Publisher); Leung, Angela Ki Che (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of Hawai‘i Press

    Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have... more

     

    Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection’s focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia.

    The first section, “Good Foods,” focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ideas about good foods and good bodies shift at different moments, in some cases privileging local foods and knowledge systems, and in other cases privileging foreign foods and knowledge systems. The second section, “Bad Foods,” focuses on what makes foods bad and even dangerous. Bad foods are not simply unpleasant or undesirable for aesthetic or sensory reasons, but they can hinder the stability and development of persons and societies. Bad foods are symbolically polluting, as in the case of foreign foods that threaten not only traditional foods, but also the stability and strength of the nation and its people. The third section, “Moral Foods,” focuses on how themes of good versus bad are embedded in projects to make modern persons, subjects, and states, with specific attention to the ambiguities and malleability of foods and health. The malleability of moral foods provides unique opportunities for understanding Asian societies’ dynamic position within larger global flows, connections, and disconnections.

    Collectively, the chapters raise intriguing questions about how foods and the bodies that consume them have been valued politically, economically, culturally, and morally, and about how those values originated and evolved. Consumers in modern Asia are not simply eating to satisfy personal desires or physiological needs, but they are also conscripted into national and global statemaking projects through acts of ingestion. Eating, then, has become about fortifying both the person and the nation.

     
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  16. The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin
    Author: Vastola, Antonella
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Cham

    Agriculture; Food Science; Environmental Science and Engineering more

  17. Eating, Drinking: Surviving
    Contributor: Jackson, Peter (Publisher); Spiess, Walter E.L. (Publisher); Sultana, Farhana (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Cham

    nutrition; agriculture; sustainable development more

     

    nutrition; agriculture; sustainable development

     
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    Contributor: Jackson, Peter (Publisher); Spiess, Walter E.L. (Publisher); Sultana, Farhana (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-319-42468-2; 9783319424682
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: nutrition; agriculture; sustainable development
  18. How safe is eating chicken?
    Author: Romano, Donato; Stefani, Gianluca
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Firenze University Press

    Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the... more

     

    Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers collected investigate the mechanisms that determine the social diffusion of trust, examining the interplay of the psychological, sociological and economic factors; and analyze the impact of the food risk communication policies on consumers and producers and on the society as a whole.

     
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  19. Vin et altérité : Le vin à l'épreuve des sciences humaines
    Contributor: Voegele, Augustin (Publisher); Nicklas, Thomas (Publisher); Toudoire-Surlapierre, Frédérique (Publisher); Faure, Michel (Publisher); Goldblum, Sonia (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  EPURE, Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims, Reims

    As a reflection of a terroir and a landscape, as an emblem of a region, a nation or a civilisation, wine also facilitates a connection between cultural dimensions that we are used to discriminating in our everyday representations (human/divine,... more

     

    As a reflection of a terroir and a landscape, as an emblem of a region, a nation or a civilisation, wine also facilitates a connection between cultural dimensions that we are used to discriminating in our everyday representations (human/divine, human/animal, noble/common, beautiful/monstruous, natural/artificial). It is thus a vector of alterity, an invitation to go towards the other, to modify or alter one's vision of the world, to cross not only regional and national borders, but also the threshold between the profane and the sacred. It was therefore essential to combine the thoughts of wine professionals with those of researchers from many areas of the human sciences, from history to economics, linguistics, semiotics, communication sciences and literary criticism. Reflet d'un terroir et d’un paysage, emblème d’une région, d’une nation ou d’une civilisation, le vin facilite aussi le rapprochement entre des dimensions culturelles que nous sommes habitués à distinguer dans nos représentations ordinaires (humain/divin, humain/animal, noble/vulgaire, beau/monstrueux, naturel/artificiel). Il est ainsi vecteur d’altérité, il invite à aller vers l’autre, à modifier ou altérer sa vision du monde, à franchir non seulement les frontières régionales et nationales, mais également le seuil séparant le profane du sacré. Il était donc indispensable d’associer les réflexions de professionnels spécialistes du vin à celles de chercheurs issus de nombreux secteurs des sciences humaines, de l’histoire à l’économie en passant par la linguistique, la sémiotique, les sciences de l’information et de la communication ou encore la critique littéraire.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Voegele, Augustin (Publisher); Nicklas, Thomas (Publisher); Toudoire-Surlapierre, Frédérique (Publisher); Faure, Michel (Publisher); Goldblum, Sonia (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9782374961057; 9782374960791
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Food & society; Wines
    Other subjects: Wine history; Wine in literature; Wine: social aspect
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (250 p.)
  20. Une écologie de l'alimentation
    Contributor: Bricas, Nicolas (Publisher); Conaré, Damien (Publisher); Walser, Marie (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  éditions Quae

    Rethinking our food is rethinking our societies. Because to share a meal and even to do his races are a means of connecting with others. The way we eat builds our health. Our agricultural production methods shape our landscapes and define our place... more

     

    Rethinking our food is rethinking our societies. Because to share a meal and even to do his races are a means of connecting with others. The way we eat builds our health. Our agricultural production methods shape our landscapes and define our place in nature. Managing resources to produce, process and distribute food is the foundation of our economies. Our edible registers, our cuisine and our table manners tell our cultures. Last but not least, eating is a pleasure ... It is by recognizing all these dimensions with equal importance that this book addresses contemporary issues of food. The proposal for an ecology of food is anchored in the double register of a science of relationships and of political commitment. Such an approach makes it possible to revisit, sometimes unexpectedly, the watchwords of sustainable food. It also aims to nurture citizen, public and private initiatives engaged in the transformation of food systems. Between an expert essay and an illustrated story of examples from around the world, this book is aimed at both professionals and a general public curious about sustainable food issues.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Bricas, Nicolas (Publisher); Conaré, Damien (Publisher); Walser, Marie (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-2-7592-3353-3; 9782759233526; 9782759233533; 9782759233540
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    Subjects: Food & society
    Other subjects: food; sustainable development; ecology; public policy; food security; sociology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (312 p.)
  21. Families and Food in Hard Times : European comparative research
    Author: O'Connell, Rebecca; Brannen, Julia
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic... more

     

    Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources. Based on research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, this timely book examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis. It examines the resources to which families have access in relation to public policies, local institutions and kinship and friendship networks, and how they intersect. Through ‘thick description’ of families’ everyday lives, it explores the ways in which low income impacts upon practices of household food provisioning, the types of formal and informal support on which families draw to get by, the provision and role of school meals in children’s lives, and the constraints upon families’ social participation involving food. Providing extensive and intensive knowledge concerning the conditions and experiences of low-income parents as they endeavour to feed their families, as well as children’s perspectives of food and eating in the context of low income, the book also draws on the European social science literature on food and families to shed light on the causes and consequences of food poverty in austerity Europe.

     
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  22. Qualité des aliments d'origine animale
    Contributor: Prache, Sophie (Publisher); Santé-Lhoutellier, Véronique (Publisher); Donnars, Catherine (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  éditions Quae

    For the past ten years or so, numerous studies have questioned our consumption of food of animal origin. The impacts of animal husbandry on the environment, the effects on human health of excessive consumption of red meat and cold meats as well as... more

     

    For the past ten years or so, numerous studies have questioned our consumption of food of animal origin. The impacts of animal husbandry on the environment, the effects on human health of excessive consumption of red meat and cold meats as well as ethical concerns towards animals have changed the image of these products. However, few studies have analyzed their quality in its various dimensions. This is what this book proposes, which takes the main lessons of a collective scientific expertise coordinated by INRAE ​​in 2020. It jointly characterizes the organoleptic, nutritional, health, technological, commercial, usage and image properties of these foods. Covering the entire food manufacturing chain, it points out the breeding and processing factors influencing quality and underlines the possible antagonisms or synergies between the dimensions of quality and between the different stages of product development. The authors also compare the specific commitments of products with quality signs (organic, Red Label, PDO, IGP, STG).

     
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  23. True Cost Accounting for Food : Balancing the Scale
    Contributor: Gemmill-Herren, Barbara (Publisher); Baker, Lauren E. (Publisher); Daniels, Paula A. (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that... more

     

    This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat, starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn, rice and water, to incentives for soil health, the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative, more equitable farming practices in and food system structures, including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall, this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics, in policy and in practice, by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems, and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems, human systems, agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system, as well as students and scholars working on food policy, food systems and sustainability.

     
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  24. Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food : Development and Democratization
    Contributor: Bonanno, Alessandro (Publisher); Sekine, Kae (Publisher); Feuer, Hart N. (Publisher)
    Published: 2020

    This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical indication is a sign used on... more

     

    This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical indication is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. It provides not only a way for businesses to leverage the value of their geographically unique products, but also to inform and attract consumers. A highly contested topic, GI is praised as a tool for the revitalization of agricultural communities, while also criticized for being an instrument exploited by global corporate forces to promote their interests. There are concerns that the promotion of GI may hamper the establishment of democratic forms of development. The contributing authors address this topic by offering theoretically informed investigations of GI from around the world. The book includes case studies ranging from green tea in Japan, olive oil in Turkey and dried fish in Norway, to French wine and Mexican Mezcal. It also places GI in the broader context of the evolution and trends of agri-food under neoliberal globalization. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and students in agri-food studies, sociology of food and agriculture, geography, agricultural and rural economics, environmental and intellectual property law, and social development.

     
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  25. Gender, Food and COVID-19 : Global Stories of Harm and Hope
    Contributor: Castellanos, Paige (Publisher); Sachs, Carolyn E. (Publisher); Tickamyer, Ann R. (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people... more

     

    This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural production and access to food remain essential. Women provide much of the formal and informal work in agriculture and food production, distribution, and preparation often under precarious conditions. A cadre of scholars and practitioners from across the globe provide their timely observations on these issues as well as more personal reflections on its impact on their lives and work. Four major themes emerge from these accounts and are interwoven throughout: the pervasiveness of food insecurity, the ubiquity of women’s care work, food justice, and policies and research that can that can result in a resilience that reimagines the future for greater gender and intersectional equality. We identify what lessons we can learn from this global pandemic about research and practices related to gender, food, and agricultural systems to strive for more equitable arrangements. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working on gender and food and agriculture during this global pandemic and beyond.

     
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