Now completely updated, this award-winning atlas maps every link of the food chain, from farming, production and retail to the food on our plates. It also investigates how, in an era of new technologies, globalized food trade and even plentiful supply, millions remain hungry.
Topics include:
* Prices and Shortages
* Malnutrition
* Dietary Changes and Increasing Obesity
* Climate Change Impacts
* Industrial Farming
* Live Animal Trade
* GM Crops
* Fertilizers and Pesticides
* Organic Farming
* Land Rights
* Trade Justice
* Fast Food and Additives
Introduction
Part I: Contemporary Challenges
Current Concerns
Feeding the World
Unequal Distribution
Environmental Challenges
Water Pressure
Nutritional Deficiencies
Over-Nutrition
Contamination
Part II: Farming
Mechanization
Industrial Livestock Production
Animal Feed
Animal Diseases
Agricultural R&D
Genetically Modified Crops
Pesticides
Fertilizers
Working the Land
Land Ownership
Urban Farming
Fishing and Aquaculture
Agricultural Biodiversity
Organic Farming
Greenhouse Gases
Part III: Trade - Trade Flows
Live Animal Transport
Subsidized Trade
Trade Disputes
Trade Dependency
Fair Trade
Part IV: Processing, Retailing and Consumption
Staple Foods
Changing Diets
Processing Giants
Retail Power
Organic Food
Food Additives
Eating Out
Fast Food
Alcohol
Advertising and Marketing
Citizens Bite Back
Part V: Data Tables
Agriculture
Consumption
Sources
Index
Erik Millstone is Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, UK. He has been working on food-related issues since the mid-1970s and is the author of Food Additives; Additives: A Guide for Everyone; Our Genetic Future; Lead and Public Health and BSE: Risk, Science and Governance, as well as numerous journal and magazine articles on the politics of food and health. He is currently working on a project concerned with reconciling improved food production for poor farmers in developing countries with environmental sustainability, as part of the STEPs centre.
Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University's Centre for Food Policy in London. He studies how policy affects the shape of the food supply chain, what people eat, and the societal, health, and environmental outcomes. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, a Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and a regular consultant to the World Health Organization and other governmental and non-governmental public bodies. Since 2006, he has been Land Use and Natural Resources Commissioner on the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission. He is co-author of Food Wars and The Unmanageable Consumer, and is widely credited as coining the term 'food miles'.