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Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment


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This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food, society and the environment. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).

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The Real Cost of Cheap Food

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

3rd Edition

Forthcoming

By Michael Carolan
August 28, 2024

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.   The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it ...

Transforming Food Systems Narratives of Power

Transforming Food Systems: Narratives of Power

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Molly D. Anderson
July 04, 2024

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being.   The book approaches food system transformation through narratives, ...

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joshua T. Brinkman
May 06, 2024

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture. Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing...

Sustainable Food Procurement Legal, Social and Organisational Challenges

Sustainable Food Procurement: Legal, Social and Organisational Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Stein, Maurizio Mariani, Roberto Caranta, Yiannis Polychronakis
February 22, 2024

The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels. While there is a growing recognition that ...

Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

Food Justice in American Cities: Stories of Health and Resilience

1st Edition

By Sabine O’Hara
December 01, 2023

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers. While America has sufficient food to feed its entire population, 38 million people are ...

How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry: A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

1st Edition

By Melissa Barrett, Massimo Marino, Francesca Brkic, Carlo Alberto Pratesi
October 30, 2023

This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain, from farm to fork, exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the ...

Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations A Global Toolkit for Cities

Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations: A Global Toolkit for Cities

1st Edition

Edited By Élodie Valette, Alison Blay-Palmer, Beatrice Intoppa, Amanda Di Battista, Ophélie Roudelle, Géraldine Chaboud
August 28, 2023

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their food systems more sustainable. ...

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand: The Collapse of Local Horticulture

1st Edition

By Benjamin Felix Richardson
August 21, 2023

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery, combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in ...

Food Futures in Education and Society

Food Futures in Education and Society

1st Edition

Edited By Gurpinder Singh Lalli, Angela Turner, Marion Rutland
July 11, 2023

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food. Food education has gained ...

The Soybean Through World History Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

The Soybean Through World History: Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

1st Edition

By Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Lisa Deutsch
June 30, 2023

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of ...

Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

Community Food Initiatives: A Critical Reparative Approach

1st Edition

Edited By Oona Morrow, Esther Veen, Stefan Wahlen
June 21, 2023

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security, food waste, or food poverty, it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as ...

Holiday Hunger in the UK Local Responses to Childhood Food Insecurity

Holiday Hunger in the UK: Local Responses to Childhood Food Insecurity

1st Edition

By Michael A. Long, Margaret Anne Defeyter, Paul B. Stretesky
May 31, 2023

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom.  The book begins by outlining the history and scope of holiday hunger – the condition that occurs when a child’s household is, or will become, food insecure during the summer...

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