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Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment


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This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food, society and the environment. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).

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International Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition Food Insecurity and the Global Economy

International Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition: Food Insecurity and the Global Economy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Francis Adams
July 03, 2025

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world. At present, over two billion people in the developing world do not have secure access to safe, sufficient and nutritious ...

Urban Food Systems in Latin America Territories, Mobilities and Governance

Urban Food Systems in Latin America: Territories, Mobilities and Governance

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Tiana Bakić Hayden, Joaquín Pérez Martín
March 31, 2025

Drawing on a range of case studies from across Latin America, this book highlights the ways that urbanization shapes the food systems that feed this region’s cities, approaching the problem of food in cities as a particularly urban problem. Latin America is the most urbanized area in the world, ...

Ethical Omnivores Better Eating for Everyone

Ethical Omnivores: Better Eating for Everyone

1st Edition

By Samantha Noll
January 31, 2025

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet. Many eaters are concerned about the impact that their food choices have on the environment, animals, and human health. Ethical omnivorism is at once a new food ethic, ...

Plant-Forward Cuisine Basic Concepts and Practical Applications

Plant-Forward Cuisine: Basic Concepts and Practical Applications

1st Edition

By Ole G. Mouritsen, Klavs Styrbæk, Mariela Johansen
December 30, 2024

Plant-Forward Cuisine is a beautifully illustrated book that promotes the environmental and health benefits of a plant-forward diet and will inspire readers with a range of exciting recipes. The book addresses the urgent need to make changes to those culinary cultures where animal-sourced proteins ...

Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations A Global Toolkit for Cities

Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations: A Global Toolkit for Cities

1st Edition

Edited By Élodie Valette, Alison Blay-Palmer, Beatrice Intoppa, Amanda Di Battista, Ophélie Roudelle, Géraldine Chaboud
December 18, 2024

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their food systems more sustainable. ...

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand: The Collapse of Local Horticulture

1st Edition

By Benjamin Felix Richardson
December 18, 2024

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery, combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in ...

The Soybean Through World History Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

The Soybean Through World History: Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

1st Edition

By Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Lisa Deutsch
November 28, 2024

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of ...

Rewilding Food and the Self Critical Conversations from Europe

Rewilding Food and the Self: Critical Conversations from Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Tristan Fournier, Sébastien Dalgalarrondo
October 08, 2024

This volume contributes to the return to nature movement that is very much in vogue in contemporary European societies, by examining the place of food and eating in the "rewilding" process. It is divided into three parts, each of which consists of conversations between social scientists, with ...

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

3rd Edition

By Michael Carolan
September 11, 2024

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it ...

Transforming Food Systems Narratives of Power

Transforming Food Systems: Narratives of Power

1st Edition

By Molly D. Anderson
July 04, 2024

This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being. The book approaches food system transformation through narratives, or...

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

1st Edition

By Joshua T. Brinkman
May 06, 2024

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture. Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing...

Sustainable Food Procurement Legal, Social and Organisational Challenges

Sustainable Food Procurement: Legal, Social and Organisational Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Stein, Maurizio Mariani, Roberto Caranta, Yiannis Polychronakis
February 23, 2024

The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels. While there is a growing recognition that ...

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