Recent advances in agri-food technology have brought increasing complexity and emerging challenges to food safety regula......more

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale v......more

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale v......more

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"What makes for a livable life, and for whom? Taking Bengaluru, India, as a case study, Camille Frazier probes the meani......more

"What makes for a livable life, and for whom? Taking Bengaluru, India, as a case study, Camille Frazier probes the meani......more

The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the terri......more

Launched in 2004, the Latin American regional institution of ALBA (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra Améri......more

Launched in 2004, the Latin American regional institution of ALBA (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra Améri......more

Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resis......more

In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew th......more

’No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year **AS HEARD......more

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for......more

Offering an overview on the relationships between smell and atmospheres as proposed by philosophy and the humanities, th......more

Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride o......more

Through interviews with farmers, chefs, non-profit managers, teachers, consumers, and healthcare providers, the author u......more

The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthro......more

A tasty oral history In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truc......more

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socio......more

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socio......more

This book examines the role and position of urban agriculture in the spatial and functional structure of cities in the G......more

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income ho......more

A fascinating exploration of beer, ancient and contemporary, and its role in shaping human society Beer is and has alway......more

A clarion call to recognize the importance of rural farming communities and to build a new agriculture policy for our fu......more

"In this eye-opening debut study, Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stra......more

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

Working across food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows examines the impact of celebrity chefs on how we think abo......more

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This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to ......more

This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to ......more

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes......more

"A Treatise on Bread" is a work by Sylvester Graham, an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer who lived in......more

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Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of foo......more

The essays in the book explore the nature and direction of socio-economic change in the lower Cauvery delta. They draw p......more

This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more

This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more

Gumbo adorns menus from New Orleans to New York to New Delhi, appearing in variations such as chicken and sausage gumbo,......more

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural so......more

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural so......more

For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people’s daily calories, bread was the li......more

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of......more

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Chayanov presents a fascinating vision of the struggle of the Russian, and international, cooperative movement for a new......more

Chayanov presents a fascinating vision of the struggle of the Russian, and international, cooperative movement for a new......more

First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on ag......more

Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us w......more

Post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa are far apart geographically and yet have endured a similar history o......more

"Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them" through James J. H. Gregory is a seminal painting that stands as a testomo......more

Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh, and from at least the late 1930s onwards she was not only passionately interested......more

The British know nothing about Botswana because it seldom gets a mention in the press; and because it’s ’simply not inte......more

With almost seven hundred articles included in this series, it is not surprising to learn that political thinking, anecd......more

Political and public stories about class and food rarely scrutinize how socio-economic and cultural resources enable acc......more

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological develop......more

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in so......more

Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of ......more

Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of ......more

"America’s food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn’t have ......more

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This research monograph is about women farmers in India who are engaged primarily in the cultivation of vegetables and f......more

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, "looks like ......more

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alter......more

What root cellaring is and why it’s important for prepper .The idea of being independent is gaining significance in toda......more

Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today’s global food system....more

Millets are ancient grains that have been cultivated by humans for centuries, and they have recently emerged as a crucia......more

Improving Agricultural Impact: Empowering INGOs to Establish and Enhance Their Food Security Programs is a transformativ......more

Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today’s global food system....more

A Psychology of Food, Cooks, and Cooking reviews psychological research and theory to illuminate the ubiquitous human be......more

Following the pattern of From Field to Fork (OUP, 2015) Paul B. Thompson provides a highly readable and up-to-date analy......more

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"The Best Tricks, Tips, and Hacks to Your Favorite Restaurants From Starbucks hacks to the McDonald’s secret menu, Fast ......more

This book explores the addictive techniques used in advertisements for ultra-processed foods, which promise consequence-......more

The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health a......more