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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes food prices and the effect on the people who grow our food. How is the price of food determined and how does it impact every other link in the food chain? How does market …	John Steinman	17	2019	$1.70 Add
From Fresh Cities From: A Matter of Taste View Collection: The Future of Food: How Small Farms are Responding to Climate Change and Corporate Agriculture Coach House Books	In this chapter, Tucker discusses farmers markets and chain grocery stores in a larger discussion of how the price of food dictates moral and ethical choices. This continues into understanding …	Rebecca Tucker	27	2018	$2.70 Add
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
From Germination Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 3 explores the germination process, discussing the history of agricultural practice in Canada from pre-colonization, the adoption of Indigenous crops by white settlers, agricultural …	Devlin Kuyek	3	2007	$0.30 Add
From Globalization Solidarity: La Vía Campesina and Food Sovereignty From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	The eleventh chapter consdiers the role of the La Vía Campesina and their international work to bring food sovereignty to the forefront. Interviewees reflect on their involvement, and …	Asha Nelson	23	2019	$2.30 Add
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
From Good Food From: A Matter of Taste View Coach House Books		Rebecca Tucker	30	2018	$3.00 Add
From Gravity Suspended From: Changing Tides View 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 Grocery Stores The Food System’s Control Center From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and …	John Steinman	25	2019	$2.50 Add
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
From Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the Movement From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	The Kootenay Co-op expansion to a new location is described through member loans and– a first in food co-op history– as a developer of Nelson Commons, residential units above the …	John Steinman	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Harvest Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 8 explores the future of agriculture, industrial farming and its alternatives, grassroots community organizing and political mobilization, resistance to industrial agriculture, the …	Devlin Kuyek	10	2007	$1.00 Add
From Harvesting Silicon Valley From: A Matter of Taste View Coach House Books	In this chapter, there is a discussion around the introduction of technology into the food industry. Tucker addresses concerns such as food security and food waste, and the new idea of technology …	Rebecca Tucker	14	2018	$1.40 Add
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 Industrialization Part I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 2 explores new models of agribusiness and industrial farming, genetically engineered plants, Canada’s ‘‘farm family’’ image, the National …	Devlin Kuyek	7	2007	$0.70 Add
From Inspiring Re-Generation of Farming: NFU Youth From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	The tenth chapter looks at young farmers, the generational decline in farming, and the barriers preventing younger farmers from accessing land and farming. Interviews are with Ayla Fenton, Matt …	Terran Giacomini	17	2019	$1.70 Add