Eating Agendas
Title | Eating Agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Maurer |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 364 |
Release | |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780202365763 |
The international group of sociological and nutritional scientists in this volume represent the research that has been conducted on the social problematics of food and nutrition in such areas as food safety, biotechnology, food stamp programs, obesity, anorexia nervosa, and vegetarianism. The broad range of topics addressed and the case studies examined make this book suitable as a course-related text both in foodways and cultural aspects of nutrition and as a new departure in social problems courses.
A Research Agenda for Food Systems
Title | A Research Agenda for Food Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Sage, Colin |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2022-10-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 180088026X |
Illuminating the global food system as a highly dynamic set of interconnecting interests that continues to drive rapid technological, societal, and cultural change, this cutting-edge Research Agenda examines the pressing issues that confront current food systems, and the emerging responses to them. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Fat History
Title | Fat History PDF eBook |
Author | Peter N. Stearns |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814739822 |
The modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture. Dieting, weight consciousness, and widespread hostility toward obesity form one of the fundamental themes of modern life. Fat History explores the meaning of fat in contemporary Western society and illustrates how progressive changes, such as growth in consumer culture, increasing equality for women, and the refocusing of women's sexual and maternal roles have influenced today's obsession with fat. Brought up-to-date with a new preface and filled with narrative anecdotes, Fat History explores fat's transformation from a symbol of health and well-being to a sign of moral, psychological, and physical disorder.
Food, risk and politics
Title | Food, risk and politics PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Randall |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2013-07-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847796370 |
This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis. The book skilfully weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics and offers a particularly rewarding read for academics and students in the fields of politics and media studies. It will also appeal to scholars from other disciplines, particularly social psychology and the food sciences. The book is a lively and exceptionally readable account of food safety and risk politics that will engage policy makers and the general reader. It promises to help us all manage food safety issues more intelligently and successfully.
Agendas for Sustainability
Title | Agendas for Sustainability PDF eBook |
Author | Mary MacDonald |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134732732 |
Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the book presents similarities and differences in problem definition, objectives, principles, priorities and actions across eleven of the major agendas put forward for environment and development after Rio. Points of divergence and areas of common ground are investigated for over 30 environment and development-related topics, such as biodiversity, consumption patterns, trade, urbanization, population, education, deforestation and water resources.
Eating Agendas
Title | Eating Agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Maurer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Food |
ISBN | 9783110149500 |
The international group of sociological and nutritional scientists in this volume represent the research that has been conducted on the social problematics of food and nutrition in such areas as food safety, biotechnology, food stamp programs, obesity, anorexia nervosa, and vegetarianism. The broad range of topics addressed and the case studies examined make this book suitable as a course-related text both in foodways and cultural aspects of nutrition and as a new departure in social problems courses.
African food systems transformation and the post-Malabo agenda
Title | African food systems transformation and the post-Malabo agenda PDF eBook |
Author | Ulimwengu, John M. |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2023-12-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
This year marks 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was broadened under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. The 2023 Annual Trends and Outlook Report generates evidence on the implementation of the CAADP/Malabo agenda and thus contributes to the design of the post-Malabo phase of CAADP implementation. The report assesses the current state of Africa's food systems, explores strategic issues related to food systems transformation, and reflects on necessary methodologies and approaches to provide a better understanding of key challenges and necessary actions to accelerate transformation.