Food Studies & Nutrition

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The Soy Complex in Latin America

The Soy Complex in Latin America

From: The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

Commodification and Concentration Upstream Control and “Flexing” Downstream (Trans-)Latin American Capital, Pools de Siembra and Contract Farming Conclusion 14 $1.40 Add
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The Story that Got Us in Trouble

The Story that Got Us in Trouble

From: A Finer Future

This chapter outlines the factors that have led society to the precipice of collapse: institutionalized greed, increased stratification of wealth and unregulated economic growth. ; ; ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Sustainable Development Goals as a Global Framework

The Sustainable Development Goals as a Global Framework

Where Fair Trade Fits

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter focuses on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, which outline targets and goals that are formatted to allow for broad interpretation though whatever system is … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Thin and the Fat

The Thin and the Fat

Food Entitlements in the Twenty-First Century

From: Hungry For Change

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The Way Forward
NEW!

The Way Forward

PART 3

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter muses on the way forward from here for our food system, looking to social-ecological resilience thinking, which offers new concepts, a new language and an effective framework for … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Way of the Peasant
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The Way of the Peasant

From: Civilizing the State

The Way of the Peasant begins with the impact of industrial agriculture on peasant farmers in India, before focusing on the resistance to these impacts through the anti-globalization and … 15 $1.50 Add
The Winter Market Gardener

The Winter Market Gardener

A Successful Grower's Handbook for Year Round Harvests

The Winter Market Gardener is a guide to year-round vegetable production. Based on years of experimentation in techniques, tools, and cultivars, it presents planting, care, and harvesting details … 274 View
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Theorizing Law

Theorizing Law

From: The Power to Criminalize

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Threats to Food Co-ops

Threats to Food Co-ops

From: Grocery Story

The co-opting by grocery chains of co-op values as marketing strategies is described, as well as the challenges of the "cornucopia effect", caused by a dizzying variety of choice. The … 20 $2.00 Add
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“Tierra Y Libertad”

“Tierra Y Libertad”

Peasant Resistence and the Quest for Land Reform

From: Hungry For Change

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Tiny Engines of Abundance
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Tiny Engines of Abundance

A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression

This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, … 157 View
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Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

Sustainability is a set of principles that focus on three fundamental elements of durable societies. They are: environmental stewardship, economic viability, and ethical behavior. These elements, … 6 $0.60 Add
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Trade Is Not Gender Neutral

Trade Is Not Gender Neutral

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

In this chapter, the authors describe the ways in which inequality is related to the uneven ways in which women and men are incorporated into the global economy. Some trade can place women-run … 10 $1.00 Add
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Traditional Nutrition

Traditional Nutrition

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

We will explore the ways in which foundational nutrition — the solid nutritional framework upon which health sits — can support resilience, influence mental outlook and motivation, … ; 38 $3.80 Add
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Tragedy of the White Amur

Tragedy of the White Amur

From: Overrun

This chapter discusses efforts by the United States government to regulate the transport and breeding of non-native species. 26 $2.60 Add
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Transformation

Transformation

Part I: Roots

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more. 11 $1.10 Add