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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The ecosystems that arise from the development of agricultural and urban areas are diverse because they exist in different areas throughout the world, from New York to New Delhi. Urban and agricultural planning requires consideration of the impact the change in environment will have on existing conditions. Agricultural and Urban Areas explores the unique ecosystems that are essentially man-made. This fascinating volume explores the importance of these...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species--and points the way to a better future"--
How humankind first hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology. Our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tell where we settled and how civilizations expanded. The quest for food for growing populations drove exploration,...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors' methods of growing food--techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo Vital, [un sello de] Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Lo que comemos tiene implicaciones no sólo para nuestra cintura, sino para el planeta, la sociedad y la economía global. Lo que hacemos a nuestro cuerpo se lo hacemos al planeta, y lo que le hacemos al planeta se lo hacemos a nuestro cuerpo. Escrito por el autor bestseller Matk Hyman, éste es un manifiesto contundente que cambiará tu forma de pensar sobre los alimentos--y sobre comerlos--para siempre. Te dará claves para entender la causa de...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott. More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate interests have put American agriculture into a state of 'quiet emergency,' from dangerous drought...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hang on to your land!" Julene Bair took her father's words to heart as a young girl. Even though she left Kansas as soon as she could for adventures in San Francisco and the Mojave Desert, she knew how much hard work and sacrifice her parents and grandparents had put into building her family's large farm. Hanging onto it would be her solemn obligation. When Julene inherited a share of the farm years later, however, honoring that wish no longer seemed...
13) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet -- one bite at a time
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is food. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies. In Food Fix, #1 bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already...
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