Food Studies & Nutrition

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Finer Future Creating an Economy in Service to Life New Society Publishers	Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered …	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	450	2018	View
A Matter of Taste A Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table Coach House Books	How did farmer’s markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with "good food"? And are these practices …	Rebecca Tucker	137	2018	View
About Canada: Media Fernwood Publishing	Canada enjoys a long-held reputation for producing high-quality media, from National Film Board documentaries to the CBC to children’s programming. But in recent years, funding cuts, …	Peter Steven	176	2011	View
About Canada: Poverty Fernwood Publishing	For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and …	Jim Silver	192	2014	View
NEW! Agriculture and the Generation Problem Agrarian Changes and Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	Despite predictions that they are destined to disappear, smallholder or family farms still number more than 500 million worldwide, and account for more than 90 percent of all the world’s …	Ben White	160	2020	View
Agroecology Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and …	Miguel A. Altieri; Peter M. Rosset	160	2017	View
NEW! Being and Swine The End of Nature (As We Knew It) Between The Lines	Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir’s award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of …	Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes	228	2020	View
Belongings The Fight For Land and Food Fernwood Publishing	In Belongings, Sally Miller illustrates how food and farm crises result from adherence to the rules of private property. Miller looks at the state of farmland and farmers in Canada and across the …	Sally Miller	205	2016	View
Changing Tides An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene New Society Publishers	Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and …	Alejandro Frid	220	2019	View
Curry Eating, Reading, and Race Coach House Books	Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By …	Naben Ruthnum	120	2017	View
NEW! Dinner on Mars The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth ECW Press	From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	232	2022	View
Emergent Agriculture Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy New Society Publishers	Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere …	Gary S. Kleppel	195	2014	View
Farm the City A Toolkit for Setting up a Successful Urban Farm New Society Publishers	Urban farming has the power to change diets, economies, and lives. Yet starting an urban farm can seem daunting with skills and knowledge that extend beyond growing to include marketing, sales, …	Michael Ableman	130	2020	View
Field Excercises How Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities New Society Publishers	There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and …	Stephanie Westlund	242	2014	View
Food Sovereignty Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community Fernwood Publishing	Advocating a practical, radical change to the way much of our food system currently operates, this book argues that food sovereignty is the means to achieving a system that will provide for the …	Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Hannah Wittman	224	2010	View
Food Sovereignty in Canada Creating Just and Sustainable Food System Fernwood Publishing	Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized, high-input, export-driven agricultural production sector, coupled with …	Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Hannah Wittman	232	2010	View