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"Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually ... English? "As a species, we're hardwired to obsess over food," Matt Siegel explains as he sets out "to uncover the hidden side of everything we put in our mouths." Siegel also probes subjects ranging from the myths--and realities--of...
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A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called...
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"Un nuevo libro en manos del público es muy significativo para una sociedad, pero un libro calificado como de "gran tamaño" y que a la vez haga referencia a una actividad que, como los frutales para Colombia, puede constituirse al lado del café, las flores y el banano en referente obligado de nuestra identidad ante el mundo en los próximos 20 años, tiene una altísima dosis de motivación, no solo desde el punto de vista de los estudiosos de...
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Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries (also from Cornell), the 2001 World Food...
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An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farmlands, and a new generation of young people interested in farming, animals, and respect for the earth have come together to create a new agrarian community. To this group of farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries, Letters to a Young Farmer is addressed. Three dozen esteemed leaders of the changes that...
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More and more of us are realizing we are now facing humanity's greatest challenge. Over the next two decades, the global warming climate crisis threatens to bring about the end of our Anthropocene Epoch - of us and virtually every multicellular life form.
In this 'save-the-planet' book, Stephen Erickson introduces you to exquisite creatures, human and non-human. The challenges they face reveal the immensity of the threat facing each of us - and its...
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In the early twentieth century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were the black occupiers being freed from racist bondage as cheap laborers by the state-supported massive land redistribution, or were they victims of state violence who had been denied access to their homes,...
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Las huertas caseras constituyeron el entorno principal en el cual se desarrolló la horticultura nacional, si bien con el paso del tiempo, paralelo al crecimiento de la población y su consecuente demanda, se fueron ampliando en explotaciones de diferentes tamaños. En la actualidad, el sector de la producción de hortalizas en Colombia ha adquirido cada día más importancia, y presenta grandes posibilidades de expansión, debido principalmente al...
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La fruticultura es, sin duda alguna, una de las actividades más emocionantes del ámbito agrícola. En todas las épocas, las frutas han jugado un papel muy importante en la nutrición del hombre. El hombre logró aprovechar las distintas especies silvestres y crear a través del fitomejoramiento continuo variedades más grandes y con mejores cualidades. Los antiguos romanos sabían sobre la poda, el injerto y el raleo de frutos, pero no comprendían...
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Public Policies, in India, are broadly of two types, policies, which can alter the existing unequal socio-economic structure and policies, which are of incremental nature. Policies like land reforms, if enforced effectively, belong to the first category, while Food Security Policies like Targeted Public Distribution System belong to the second category and do not affect the unequal social-economic structure. Though food security policies are in operation...
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The Tall Corn State's agricultural history influences countless aspects of modern life. To truly understand Iowa, you have to understand the culture of agriculture--the stories of the people of the land. In many ways, these are untold stories, especially as more generations of families are further removed from living or working on Iowa farms. Visitors from around the globe travel to Iowa annually for major events like the Farm Progress Show, the World...
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La fruticultura es, sin duda alguna, una de las actividades más emocionantes del ámbito agrícola. En todas las épocas, las frutas han jugado un papel muy importante en la nutrición del hombre. El hombre logró aprovechar las distintas especies silvestres y crear a través del fitomejoramiento continuo variedades más grandes y con mejores cualidades. Los antiguos romanos sabían sobre la poda, el injerto y el raleo de frutos, pero no comprendían...
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La fruticultura es, sin duda alguna, una de las actividades más emocionantes del ámbito agrícola. En todas las épocas, las frutas han jugado un papel muy importante en la nutrición del hombre. El hombre logró aprovechar las distintas especies silvestres y crear a través del fitomejoramiento continuo variedades más grandes y con mejores cualidades. Los antiguos romanos sabían sobre la poda, el injerto y el raleo de frutos, pero no comprendían...
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Hace cinco siglos, con el arranque de la dominación española, se inició el intercambio colombino, considerado como una de las transformaciones más revolucionarias que se ha realizado en la naturaleza y que produjo una de las mayores modificaciones en ella, esta vez como resultado de la acción humana. La biota fue transportada por todo el globo por decisión deliberada de los colonizadores y, con ello, se puso fin a la tendencia divergente de...
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With a foreword by Carolyn Steel of Hungry City, Wayne Roberts' new book will do for city-food connections what Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved did to link hunger and obesity, what Marion Nestle's Food Politics did to tie together government agencies and food monopolies and what Michael Pollan did to connect corn and porkbarrel politics. You don't have to look hard to find books on food problems and city problems. Roberts puts them together to create...
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La fruticultura es, sin duda alguna, una de las actividades más emocionantes del ámbito agrícola. En todas las épocas, las frutas han jugado un papel muy importante en la nutrición del hombre. El hombre logró aprovechar las distintas especies silvestres y crear a través del fitomejoramiento continuo variedades más grandes y con mejores cualidades. Los antiguos romanos sabían sobre la poda, el injerto y el raleo de frutos, pero no comprendían...
17) Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf: The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation
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When Peter Lovenheim stood in line at McDonald's to buy a Happy Meal for his daughter, which would come with a Teenie Beanie Baby-either a cow named "Daisy" or a bull named "Snort," he found it strange that young children would be expected to play with cuddly toy cows one minute and eat the grilled remains of real ones the next. Lovenheim suddenly saw the disconnect between what we eat and our knowledge of where our food comes from. Determined to...
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"Un nuevo libro en manos del público es muy significativo para una sociedad, pero un libro calificado como de "gran tamaño" y que a la vez haga referencia a una actividad que, como los frutales para Colombia, puede constituirse al lado del café, las flores y el banano en referente obligado de nuestra identidad ante el mundo en los próximos 20 años, tiene una altísima dosis de motivación, no solo desde el punto de vista de los estudiosos de...
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Welcome to Foodbank Britain, where emergency food provision is an increasingly visible and controversial feature of ongoing austerity. We know the statistics, but what does it feel like to be forced to turn to foodbanks for help? What does it take to get emergency food, and what's in the food parcel? Kayleigh Garthwaite conducted hundreds of hours of interviews while working in a Trussell Trust foodbank. She spoke to people like Anna and her 11-year-old...
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In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate for food justice, and promote more sustainable, agroecological farming practices. However, the movement for fairer, healthier, and more autonomous...