Closing the food gap : resetting the table in the land of plenty /

"In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winne, Mark, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Beacon Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Poverty > United States > Prevention.
Hunger > United States > Prevention.
Economic assistance, Domestic > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Economic assistance, Domestic
Hunger > Prevention
Poverty > Prevention
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: I've come to-- shop?
  • Suburbia, environmentalism, and the early gurglings of the food movement
  • Reagan, hunger, and the rise of food banks
  • Farmer's markets: bringing food to the people
  • Community gardens: growing our own
  • Food banks: waste not, want not
  • Re-storing America's food deserts
  • Growing obese and diabetic: going local and organic
  • Community supported agriculture: communities find the way
  • Public policy: food for the people
  • Income disparities, poverty, and the food gap
  • Conclusion: resetting America's table.

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