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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
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
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
Frontline Farmers Fernwood Publishing	Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability …	Annette Aurélie Desmarais	273	2019	View
Good Crop / Bad Crop Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada Between The Lines	In recent years Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins of their food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well known is that pesticide …	Devlin Kuyek	160	2007	View
Grocery Story The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Store Giants New Society Publishers	Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most …	John Steinman	306	2019	View
In The Business of Change How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual New Society Publishers	Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the …	Elisa Birnbaum	195	2018	View
From Gravity Suspended From: Changing Tides Preview New Society Publishers	This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as …	Alejandro Frid	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Introduction Overview of Belongings From: Belongings Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Sally Miller	20	2016	$2.00 Add
From Introduction On the Cusp of a Revolution From: Emergent Agriculture Preview New Society Publishers	Today’s shifting agricultural paradigm is doing much the same thing. It is changing the way we produce food, how and where we get it, and what it does to our health, our pocket books, and …	Gary S. Kleppel	5	2014	$0.50 Add
From Introduction From: In The Business of Change Preview New Society Publishers	Social entrepreneurs, innovative men and women who focus their creative energy and business-minded skillset and savvy toward social change. Finding new and empowering ways to tackle social …	Elisa Birnbaum	4	2018	$0.40 Add
From Introduction, Consider the Dunkaroo From: A Matter of Taste Preview Coach House Books	In this chapter, Tucker begins with a discussion on the association of moral good and bad in relation to food habits. This leads into what constitutes good or bad food, and stresses four …	Rebecca Tucker	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Introduction: the Martian Singularity From: Dinner on Mars Preview ECW Press	The Introduction reflects on the origins of this book as a thought experiment of what life would look like on Mars. Discussing topics including the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, revolutionary …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Rise of the Grocery Giants From: Grocery Story Preview New Society Publishers	This chapter begins the description of the actions and tactics of "big food". The history of the A&P grocery retalier is described, as well as Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service …	John Steinman	15	2019	$1.50 Add
From The Protagonists From: Frontline Farmers Preview Fernwood Publishing	This chapter is meant to introduce the farmer members of the National Farmers Union who share their key struggles, gathered together by topic.	Annette Aurélie Desmarais	18	2019	$1.80 Add

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