Food Studies & Nutrition
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From ![]() Consumer Food Co-ops TodayFrom: Grocery Story |
The many facets and community-building features of consumer food co-ops today, from continuing and children’s education to community giving and non-profit arms are described. Also described … | John Steinman | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Corporate TransformationFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which the underlying corporate structure upon which our economy is built will need to reorganize and refocus towards long term sustainability. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() CorporationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
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. | Devlin Kuyek | 9 | 2007 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate PowerFrom: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter demonstrates that the international trade framework systematically reduces national sovereignty and democracy, disempowers governments that seek to enact policies to protect people … | Sujata Dey | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations |
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 … | Dana James | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() CSAFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model is transformative. It changes the way farmers farm, the way markets function, and the way consumers relate to the production chain. The CSA model … | Gary S. Kleppel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing ClimateFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
The final chapter of the book looks beyond the farm and assesses ways for the entire food production system – from farm to table – to become more resilient. Everything from … | Laura Lengnick | 34 | 2015 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Cultivating the Entrepreneurial MindsetFrom: The Farmer's Office |
The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable – Money Shame – Mental Models – Time Management – Being the Employer of Choice – … | Julia Shanks | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
![]() CurryEating, Reading, and Race |
Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By … | 120 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Day to Day: Using QuickBooks for Cash ManagementFrom: The Farmer's Office |
Create Your Annual Budget by Month – The Bank Feed – Regular Bookkeeping–Every Day-ish (10 minutes) – Review, Refine, and Stay on Target– Every Month (1 hour) … | Julia Shanks | 24 | 2024 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Demanding JusticeCan Trade Policy Be Fair? From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter articulates the challenge for fair traders: to create a vision for how the principles of fair trade — democracy, justice, dignity, human rights, a living income and … | Gavin Fridell and Kate Ervine | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Digging into the Numbers and BeyondFrom: The Farmer's Office |
Section 1: Calculating the Cost of Production – Section 2: Allocating General Production Costs and Enterprise Analysis – Section 3: Marketing and Pricing Strategies – Section 4: … | Julia Shanks | 32 | 2024 | $3.20 Add |
![]() NEW! Dinner on MarsThe Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth |
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 |
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From ![]() Discoveries on the EdgeFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
My experience confirmed what can be achieved as a “sprinkle investor” holding a portfolio of small private-equity investments in promising mission-based companies. I love the … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Diversity in AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
For the farmer, biodiversity is both domestic and wild, and a farm can be a place where biodiversity flourishes or from which it is excluded. The way farmers relate to biodiversity distinguishes … | Gary S. Kleppel | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() “Drawing Forth the Force that Slumbered in Peasants’ Arms”The Economist, High Agriculture & Selling Capitalism From: Food Sovereignty |
Carla Fehr; Jim Handy | 17 | 2010 | $1.87 Add |















