Food Studies & Nutrition
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From ![]() NEW! GrainsPART 4 |
This chapter features case studies of grain growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. It features various resilience … | Laura Lengnick | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Gravity SuspendedFrom: Changing Tides |
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 |
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From ![]() Grocery StoresThe Food System’s Control Center From: Grocery Story |
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 StoryThe Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Store Giants |
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 |
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From ![]() Growing a Finer FutureFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores the future of sustainable agriculture and the ways that we can ensure everyone has enough to eat. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
![]() NEW! Growing and Eating SustainablyAgroecology in Action |
Growing and Eating Sustainably shines light on the process of agroecological transition by showcasing the experiences of growers and eaters in southern Brazil, a country where agrarian movements … | 137 | View | ||
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From ![]() Growing CommunityCommunity Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty |
Yolanda Hansen | 18 | 2010 | $2.52 Add | |
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From ![]() Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the MovementFrom: Grocery Story |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Growing Up Rural |
Topics covered in this chapter include: households, the generational division of labour, education, pluriactivity, and plurilocality. | Ben White | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Growing Your BusinessFrom: The Farmer's Office |
Establish Goals – Is "Growth" the Right Strategy? – Deciding How to Grow – Growing Your Team – Marketing – Key Success Factors | Julia Shanks | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa |
Chapter 4 examines Guatemala during the mid-20th century, as various governments sought to “modernize” Mayan traditional milpa agriculture, resulting in a genocide directed at Mayan … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() HarvestPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
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 |
![]() NEW! Harvesting FreedomThe Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada |
In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 224 | 2023 | View |
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From ![]() Harvesting Silicon ValleyFrom: A Matter of Taste |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Pierogi CrownThe Filling |
Monika Warzecha reflects on pierogies and becoming the ‘pierogi princess’, being a hyphenated Canadian, the multicultural classrooms of Toronto, Polish diaspora in Canada, Polish … | Monika Warzecha | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() History and Currents of Agroecology ThoughtFrom: Agroecology |
Miguel A. Altieri; Peter M. Rosset | 27 | 2017 | $2.70 Add |

















