Offering clear, simple, and practical descriptions of the best-known varieties of the domestic pig....more

Offering clear, simple, and practical descriptions of the best-known varieties of the domestic pig....more

A detailed guide to keeping pigs outdoors, offering its readers all the information necessary for keeping pigs in this f......more

A large and comprehensive collection of articles on pig farming, with information on diet, ailments, housing, preparatio......more

A collection of articles pertaining to the production of pork, with information on curing, cuts, slaughtering, and many ......more

All the information one might want to know about pigs and related subjects....more

How did people exist and resist in their daily lives under Soviet control in the Cold War period? Shkodrova’s monograph ......more

In recent years there has been an increasing resurgence in small scale pig rearing for both commercial use and exhibitio......more

All the information one might want to know about pigs and related subjects....more

A detailed treatise on keeping pigs, with information on the feeding and management of pigs for the production of pork a......more

A thorough and fascinating exposition on the comparison between English and Danish pig production....more

A detailed guide to keeping pigs, complete with detailed explanations, helpful instructions, and a wealth of interesting......more

Christine Hippert examines buying food on credit in corner stores in Cabarete, an international tourism destination in t......more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate......more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate......more

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and ......more

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and ......more

"Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future."--Bo......more

Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us takes readers on a lively journey through the social, cultural, and......more

Welcome to 2030. You’ll own nothing, have no privacy, and you’ll be happy. . . . For the past two years, since the begin......more

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This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallh......more

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the e......more

Indigenous food systems have been neglected in regards to current global food security challenges. The author argues tha......more

"A deep dive into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a......more

This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, f......more

In recent years, contract farming has received much attention in the literature, and is touted as a means to engage smal......more

William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d.......more

Join the Nicholson family for this heartwarming journey through a typical springtime on their South Yorkshire farm. Thro......more

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or per......more

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands i......more

Michael Drew’s review of the causes and effects of food poverty in Ireland offers the first full-length study of this si......more

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Food Information, Communication and Education analyses the role of different media in producing and transforming knowled......more

The cutting-edge technologies have impacted the library and its operations in an immense way. The technology has impacte......more

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Climate variability affecting and threatening agricultural production and food security of smallholder farmers. It has i......more

An innovative historical account which compellingly locates the provision of food in the political economic trajectory o......more

New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved toma......more

A WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FINALIST New York Times bestselling author William Alexander provides "an entertaining, br......more

 In the summer of 2020, the Narendra Modi government pushed through three anti-farmer, pro-corporate bills in parliamen......more

Chocolate is nearly always with us--when celebrating or mourning, in love or alone, healthy or sick, happy or sad. This ......more

Winner of the 2023 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Prize for Edited Volume Image by image and hashtag......more

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The essential goal of Food Technology: Objective Food Chemistry and Nutrition is to provide complete and simplified reac......more

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This book explores how women’s relationship with food has been represented in Italian literature, cinema, scientific wri......more

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This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery......more

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A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gende......more

A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gende......more

The chilli pepper is an important vegetable and spice crop with commercial and medical value. Its ancestors originated i......more

This book is the first comprehensive critical analysis of the cultural politics of a new kind of British heritage discou......more

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Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve, created in 1980, was a history-making decision that is a model for land preser......more

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Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their r......more

The 2021 edition presents country-level indicators of the resilience of agrifood systems. The indicators measure the rob......more

In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are f......more

In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are f......more

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A combine harvester has been widely employed for harvesting paddy in Malaysia. However, it is one of the most challengin......more

This book aims to develop a political history of Italian ’good food’ on national television, and the central role of foo......more

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America’s farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Yet farmers and environmentalists ......more

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On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz ’arabi--the s......more

On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz ’arabi--the s......more

By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina’s Lowc......more

"Edifying and entertaining." -- Foreword Reviews, starred review Taste Canada Silver Award Winner and Finalist for the S......more

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditi......more