The no-nonsense guide to world food /

"With spiraling food prices and spreading social unrest, this is a timely guide to the instability of industrialized food systems. Wayne Roberts traces the history of food production and consumption, and shows that in a system dominated by supermarkets and agribusiness real food choices are bec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roberts, Wayne, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : New Internationalist, 2008.
Series:No-nonsense guides (New Internationalist Publications (Firm))
Subjects:
Food supply.
Food industry and trade.
Agricultural industries.
Industries agricoles.
Aliments > Approvisionnement.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Agricultural industries
Food industry and trade
Food supply
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book title
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. I eat, therefore I can
  • 2. Brave new food
  • 3. Putting food sovereignty in its place
  • 4. Bread and roses
  • 5. Gluttons for punishment
  • 6. Economics as if food mattered
  • 7. Somethin's gotta give
  • Contacts and Resources
  • Index

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