Critical Food Issues [2 volumes]: Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide

"In order to create a broad and authoritative reference on food today, 41 researchers from universities around the world were asked to provide their academic expertise on complex information and ideas in a manner that could be communicated across disciplinary boundaries without obscuring the underlying complexity. The disciplines represented range across the entire gamut of the sciences and humanities as contributors address the environment, agriculture and fisheries, health, society, culture, and ethics. Among their topics are soil degradation and conservation, sustainable agriculture in developing countries, the effects of agricultural practices on nutrient profiles of foods, roots and roles of alternative agrifood systems, sustainable regional food systems and healthy rural livelihoods, and animal welfare. The two volumes are paged and indexed separately."

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Reference & Research Book News

"The problem-solving approach of this work gives it a unique take on a recently popular topic, and its approachable style lends itself well to undergraduate research. A good addition for undergraduate research collections."

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Library Journal

"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections."

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Choice

"Critical Food Issues is an extraordinary contribution to the emerging field of food studies. Its essays prove beyond doubt that food is a fascinating and worthwhile subject of academic inquiry and that the results of that inquiry are of overwhelming importance to individuals as well as to society. The range and breadth of topics covered in this volume make the connections between agriculture and culture, and between food production and nutrition and health, abundantly clear. Anyone interested in food will find much to learn from the essays in these volumes. I intend to assign them to every class I teach."

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Marion Nestle
Paulette Goddard Professor, New York University
Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
Author, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism, What to Eat, and Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine

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