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Geographies of food: an introduction

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomsbury Academic 2021 LondonDescription: xviii, 347 p.: col. ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780857854582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.3 K6G3
Summary: What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays in our everyday lives. Geographies of Food explores contemporary food issues and crises in all their dimensions, as well as the many solutions currently being proposed. Drawing on global case studies from the Majority and Minority Worlds, it analyses the complex relationships operating between people and processes at a range of geographical scales, from the shopping decisions of consumers in a British or US supermarket, to food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the high-level political negotiations at the World Trade Organization and the strategies of giant American and European agri-businesses whose activities span several continents. With over 60 color images and a range of lively pedagogical features, Geographies of Food is essential reading for undergraduates studying food and geography. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/geographies-of-food-9780857854582/
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Table of content

Part 1: The Place of Food
Chapter 1: Introducing Geographies of Food
Chapter 2: Food and Place Identity

Part 2: Geographies of Food Production, Transformation and Consumption
Chapter 3: Geographies and Politics of Agricultural Production
Chapter 4: What Happens to Food: Geographies of Mobility and Transformation
Chapter 5: Eating Geographies: The Spaces and Cultures of Food Consumption

Part 3: Geographies of Food Crisis and Response
Chapter 6: Food Systems in Crisis? The New Food Insecurity
Chapter 7: The Fight against Hunger and Malnutrition in the Majority World
Chapter 8: Food Insecurity Amidst Wealth
Chapter 9 Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food

Part 4: Geographies of Possible Food Futures
Chapter 10: Future Scenarios for Sustainable Food and Farming
Chapter 11: Conclusions

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays in our everyday lives.
Geographies of Food explores contemporary food issues and crises in all their dimensions, as well as the many solutions currently being proposed. Drawing on global case studies from the Majority and Minority Worlds, it analyses the complex relationships operating between people and processes at a range of geographical scales, from the shopping decisions of consumers in a British or US supermarket, to food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the high-level political negotiations at the World Trade Organization and the strategies of giant American and European agri-businesses whose activities span several continents.
With over 60 color images and a range of lively pedagogical features, Geographies of Food is essential reading for undergraduates studying food and geography.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/geographies-of-food-9780857854582/

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