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

What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily s......more

Originally published in 1924 and regularly revised since then, this book is an exhaustive study of the craft of pig-keep......more

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 collection of articles on the different breeds of pigs, including information on the Berkshire, the Cheshire, The Jers......more

A general guide to keeping pigs, with information on breeding, ailments and treatment, feeding, housing, and much more....more

A detailed treatise on keeping pigs, with information on the feeding and management of pigs for the production of pork a......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 collection of articles pertaining to the production of pork, with information on curing, cuts, slaughtering, and many ......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

A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why--a flavorful blend of The Omnivore s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, a......more

This book examines the success of the Hungarian agricultural miracle, a hybrid agricultural system created by transfer p......more

In Not Even a Grain of Rice, Christine Hippert examines the intercultural networks of buying food with in-store credit a......more

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

The acclaimed chronicle of the regeneration of one family’s traditional English farm NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the......more

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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

"On a twenty-acre farm in Iowa in 1995, Angela Tedesco planted the seeds of Turtle Farm, introducing Community Supported......more

This multi-generational story begins before the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa and ends with a discussion of c......more

This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society’s collective values, economic structures, and structural i......more

Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize f......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

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

"Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition is designed for college students in agricultural education and ot......more

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

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

The UK countryside is under pressure. The needs of food production compete with those of the environment, heritage and l......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

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

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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

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

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

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

"From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every o......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

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

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

Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel th......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

This book demonstrates that redistributive land reform can transform the lives of poor peasants by removing distortions ......more

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an ex......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

Explore America’s Dairyland and the American Spirit At the dawn of World War II, Wisconsin was home to nearly 200,000 da......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

Parliamentary action is fundamental to securing healthy diets for all. This handbook provides parliamentarians with prac......more