Lawrence / Lyons / Wallington Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-54565-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production and food access are of particular concern in the context of climate change, 'peak oil', biofuels, and land grabs by wealthy nations.

Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability offers critical insights by international scholars, with chapters on global food security, supermarket power, new technologies, and sustainability. The book also assesses the contributions of diet and nutrition research in building socially just and environmentally sustainable food systems and provides policy recommendations to improve the health and environmental status of contemporary agri-food systems. The book features contributions from a range of social science perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, public health and geography, with case study material drawn from throughout the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawrence, Geoffrey

Lyons, Kristen

Wallington, Tabatha

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability in a Globalized World

Part I: Global Food Security

2. Breadbasket Contradictions: The Unstable Bounty of Industrial Agriculture in the United States and Canada
3. Security for Whom? Changing Discourses on Food in Europe in Times of a Global Food Crisis
4. The Re-emergence of National Food Security on the United Kingdom's Strategic Policy Agenda: Sustainability Challenges and the Politics of Food Supply
5. Neoliberalism and Food Vulnerability: The Stakes for the South
6. Energy Security, Agriculture and Food

Part II: Food Systems, Diet and Nutrition

7. Unequal Food Systems, Unhealthy Diets
8. Explaining Patterns of Convenience Food Consumption
9. Public Health and Moral Panic: Sociological Perspectives on the 'Epidemic of Obesity'
10. The Food Regulatory System - Is it Protecting Public Health and Safety?
11. The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems
12. Supermarkets, Food Systems and Public Health: Facing the Challenges

Part III: Towards a Sustainable Agri-food Future

13. Bodies, Bugs and Dirt: Sustainability Re-imagined in Community Gardens
14. Biofuels: Finding a Sustainable Balance for Food and Energy
15. Examining the Mythologies of Organics: Moving Beyond the Organic/Conventional Binary?
16. Nanotechnology and the Techno-corporate Agri-food Paradigm
17. Conclusion: Drawing Evidence from the Food System for Future Policy

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Lawrence is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia.

Kristen Lyons is Senior Lecturer in the School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Australia.

Tabatha Wallington is a Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia.