Tim Lang, Michael Heasman

Food Wars (eBook, ePUB)

The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317623137
• Artikelnr.: 43980791

Autorenporträt

Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University London, UK. He has been a consultant to UN agencies, including auditing the Global Top 25 Food Companies on food and health for the WHO. He was a UK Sustainable Development Commissioner, 2006-11, and has worked closely with civil society organisations locally, nationally and internationally. In 2010 he was appointed to the Mayor of London's Food Board. He is a frequent commentator on food policy in the media.

Michael Heasman is Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK. He has held academic positions at universities including Alberta, Aalborg, SOAS, Reading and Harper Adams. He is Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City University London. He has been a consultant to Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, VTT in Finland and CSIRO in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Food Policy Problem 2. The Food Wars Thesis 3. Diet,
Health and Disease 4. Food, Environment and Sustainability 5. Policy
Responses to Food's Role in Human and Environmental Health 6. The Food Wars
Business 7. The Consumer Culture War 8. Food Democracy or Food Control? 9.
The Future