Food security, nutrition and sustainability
By: Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington.
Contributors: Lyons, Kristen.; Wallington, Tabatha.
Publisher: EARTHSCAN
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781844077755
Subjects: Food supply; Food industry and trade; Sustainable agriculture; Diet -- Research; Nutrition -- Research; Agricultural innovations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: food security, nutrition and sustainability in a globalized world / Geoffrey lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington; title: Breadbasket contradictions: the unstable bounty of industrial agriculture in the United States and Canada / Tony Weis; title: Security for whom? Changing discourses on food in Europe in times of a global food crisis / Gianluca Brunori and Angela Guarino; title: The re-emergence of national food security on the United Kingdom's strategic policy agenda: sustainability challenges and the politics of food supply / David Barling, Tim Lang and Rosalind Sharpe; title: Neoliberalism and food vulnerability: the stakes for the South / Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero; title: Energy security, agriculture and food / Jago Dodson ... [et al.]; title: Unequal food systems, unhealthy diets / Sharon Friel and Wieslaw Lichacz; title: Explaining patterns of convenience food consumption / Lisa Schubert, Megan Jennaway and Helen Johnson; title: Public health and moral panic: sociological perspectives on the "epidemic of obesity" / Stewart Lockie and Susan Williams; title: The food regulatory system, is it protecting public health and safety? / Mark Lawrence; title: The "wellness" phenomenon: implications for global agri-food systems / David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence; title: Supermarkets, food systems and public health: facing the challenges / Libby Hattersley and Jane Dixon; title: Bodies, bugs and dirt: sustainability re-imagined in community gardens / Kelly Donati, Susan Cleary and Lucinda Pike; title: Biofuels: finding a sustainable balance for food and energy / Sophia Murphy; title: Examining the mythologies of organics: moving beyond the organic/conventional binary? / Hugh Campbell ... [et al.]; title: Nanotechnology and the techno-corporate agri-food paradigm / Gyorgy Scrinis and Kristen Lyons; title: Conclusion: Big choices about the food system / Tim Lang.