Laurel Phoenix, Lynn Walter

Critical Food Issues (eBook, PDF)

Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide [2 volumes]

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative, research-based collection examines urgent threats to future global food security and evaluates current and potential solutions.

Critical Food Issues: Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide examines 31 crucial areas of concern, from soil degradation, depletion of water for irrigation, and loss of biodiversity to declining rural livelihoods, hunger and obesity, unjust farm labor practices, and farm animal mistreatment.

Critical Food Issues divides its coverage into two exhaustive volumes, one on bioenvironmental topics and one with a sociocultural focus. Throughout, highly accomplished experts from a variety of academic backgrounds review the current state of research on specific problems, then identify strategies for confronting those problems that balance sustainable agrifood systems with environmental stewardship, healthy people, and equitable communities. At a time of increasing public outcries over the quality of food and the impact of agrifood production on long-term environmental and human well-being, Critical Food Issues offers an authoritative and comprehensive basis on which producers, consumers, and citizens can make more informed decisions about the future of food.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313354458
• Artikelnr.: 37819184

Autorenporträt

Lynn Walter is co-director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture, Chair of Anthropology, and Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, where she also teaches women's and gender studies.

Laurel E. Phoenix is associate professor of public and environmental affairs and chair of the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI.