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Language
English
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What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? Combining deep sourcing, immersive reporting, and compulsively readable prose, Lorr leads a wild investigation in which we learn: The secrets of Trader Joe's success from Trader Joe himself; Why truckers call their job "sharecropping on wheels;" What it takes for a product...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
New and revised edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 525 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An up-to-the-minute global investigation of famine and the persistent issues the keep most of the world hungry. By one of Latin America's most famous and formidable journalists comes a book for the ages. In HUNGER, award-winning author Martin Caparros goes in search of why, in the 21st century, most of the world's inhabitants still go hungry daily and To do this he travels to places where food is scarce -- Niger and Northern India, as well as to...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a 'world food crisis.' The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing countries are banning exports even if this means starving their neighbours. Governments and corporations are scrambling to secure control over food supply...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Americans enjoy some of the cheapest, most convenient food on the planet. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system is a fraud. It is built on the illusion of limitless abundance, and the planet has its limits. So too do the workers who must labor harder and faster for less pay. So too does a healthcare system that must absorb rising rates of diabetes and obesity. Through stories from around the globe, Kevin Walker...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xiii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes or failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--From...
12) Farming and food
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
16) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are corrupted by money and lobbies that drive our biggest global crises: the spread of obesity and food-related chronic disease, climate change, poverty, violence, educational achievement gaps, and more."--Publisher's website.
20) The end of food
Author
Publisher
Barricade Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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