Colour photographs, Colour illustrations
128 pages, 246 x 189 mm
Publisher:
Earthscan
Now completely updated, this award-winning atlas maps every link of the food chain, from farming, production and retail to the food on our plates. It also investigates how, in an era of new technologies, globalised food trade and even plentiful supply, millions remain hungry.
Topics include:
Prices and Shortages
Malnutrition
Dietary Changes and Increasing Obesity
Climate Change Impacts
Industrial Farming
Live Animal Trade
GM Crops
Fertilisers and Pesticides
Organic Farming
Land Rights
Trade Justice
Fast Food and Additives.
Erik Millstone is Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, UK. He has been working on food-related issues since the mid-1970s and is the author of Food Additives, Additives: A Guide for Everyone, Our Genetic Future, Lead and Public Health and BSE: Risk, Science and Governance, as well as numerous journal and magazine articles on the politics of food and health.
Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University's Centre for Food Policy in London. He studies how policy affects the shape of the food supply chain, what people eat, and the societal, health and environmental outcomes. He is Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and a regular consultant to the World Health Organisation and other governmental and non-governmental public bodies. He is co-author of Food Wars and The Unmanageable Consumer, and is widely credited as coining the term 'food miles'.
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