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Title
The atlas of food

Author
Erik Millstone

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Routledge

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20080925

Description

Now completely updated, this award-winning atlas maps every link of the food chain, from farming, production and retail to the food on our plates. It also investigates how, in an era of new technologies, globalized food trade and even plentiful supply, millions remain hungry. Topics include:

Prices and Shortages
Malnutrition
Dietary Changes and Increasing Obesity
Climate Change Impacts
Industrial Farming
Live Animal Trade
GM Crops
Fertilizers and Pesticides
Organic Farming
Land Rights
Trade Justice
Fast Food and Additives

Erik Millstone is Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, UK. He has been working on food-related issues since the mid-1970s and is the author of Food Additives; Additives: A Guide for Everyone; Our Genetic Future; Lead and Public Health and BSE: Risk, Science and Governance, as well as numerous journal and magazine articles on the politics of food and health. He is currently working on a project concerned with reconciling improved food production for poor farmers in developing countries with environmental sustainability, as part of the STEPs centre.Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University's Centre for Food Policy in London. He studies how policy affects the shape of the food supply chain, what people eat, and the societal, health, and environmental outcomes. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, a Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and a regular consultant to the World Health Organization and other governmental and non-governmental public bodies. Since 2006, he has been Land Use and Natural Resources Commissioner on the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission. He is co-author of Food Wars and The Unmanageable Consumer, and is widely credited as coining the term 'food miles'.

Type
BOOK

Edition
2nd Edition

Keyword Index
Food supply.|Food industry and trade.|Agricultural geography.|Food supply - Maps.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
128

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