Food Politics What Everyone Needs to Know® |
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| Author:
| Paarlberg, Robert |
| Series title: | What Everyone Needs to Know Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-932239-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $78.00 |
Book Description:
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In a lively and easy-to-navigate, question-and-answer format, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® carefully examines and explains the most important issues on today's global food landscape, including international food prices, famines, the politics of chronic hunger, the Malthusian race between food production and population growth, international food aid, controversies surrounding "green revolution" farming, the politics of obesity, farm subsidies and trade, agriculture and...
More DescriptionIn a lively and easy-to-navigate, question-and-answer format, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® carefully examines and explains the most important issues on today's global food landscape, including international food prices, famines, the politics of chronic hunger, the Malthusian race between food production and population growth, international food aid, controversies surrounding "green revolution" farming, the politics of obesity, farm subsidies and trade, agriculture and the environment, agribusiness, supermarkets, food safety, fast food, slow food, organic food, local food, and genetically engineered food. For those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed and also challenged, this is the book to read.