Food Studies & Nutrition

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Chapter 4: Biophilia

PART II: RED EDEN

From: Dinner on Mars

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Chapter 4 examines the role biospheres and greenspaces will play in the Martian city. Discussing the Bloedel Conservatory, agriculture and architecture , the history of greenhouses and glass … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Climate Justice?

Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee!

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … 11 $1.10 Add
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Coda

From: Curry

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This chapter discusses Ruthnum’s own ideas of identity beyond those he writes about. There is a discussion of the tropes associated with South Asian writers, the categorizations they beg to … 8 $0.80 Add
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Colleges and Universities

Feeding Minds With Good Food Culture

From: Take Back the Tray

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Corporation

Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

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Chapter 5 examines the rise of corporations in agriculture in the 1970’s onward in Canada, The National Biotechnology Strategy 1983, policy reform, neoliberalism, and more. 9 $0.90 Add
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Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Feeding Finance From Farm to Plate

From: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies

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Fierce Farming Women

From: The Color of Food

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Portrait 1: Alabama Strong. Sandra Simone, Huckleberry Hill Farm Portrait 2: American Indian Mothers. Beverly Collins-Hall, American Indian Mother and Three Sisters Farm Portrait 3: Sisters. … 38 $3.80 Add
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Food Secure Canada

Where Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect

From: Food Sovereignty in Canada

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Harvesting Silicon Valley

From: A Matter of Taste

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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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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Interlude

From: Grocery Story

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This chapter describes alternative, viable, models for grocery stores and the "food shed" of local retailers and growers in Nelson, BC, and Viroqua, Wisconsin. The grocery store chains … 11 $1.10 Add
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Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

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Chapter 5 examines Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, when governments– advised by Western development specialists– sought to “capture” peasant production and boost export … 22 $2.20 Add
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On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts

Fifty Million Farmers

From: Peak Everything

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There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … 20 $2.00 Add
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Organizing for Self-Reliance

From: In Pursuit of Justice

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Part 3

Caring For the Earth

From: Human Permaculture

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Biodiversity, the Key to Balance – Water Is Life – Soil, Too, Is Life – Forest: Bridge between Land and Sky ; 44 $4.40 Add