Food Security & Supply

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - f...

At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity. However, food insecurity has pe...

The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades. While there have been a n...

This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements.As global food syst...

Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this ...

As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative d...

The mainstream agri-food system in Thailand has been shaped to aid capital accumulation by domestic and transnational hegemonic forces, and is curr...

This title was first published in 2001. This text is an exercise in learning from the voices of the communities living in Indian villages near urba...

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks and aquatic plants. It is a rapidly growing industry that plays...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of food and dairy process engineering, catering to a diverse audience ranging from students and buddin...

In an age of climate catastrophes and extinction, world-renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows why we must turn back to nature and learn, on...

This book opens up horizons for designing innovative supply chains of citrus by-products, taking into consideration the current socio-economic situ...

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies Popular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surround...

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies Popular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surround...

By 2050 the world's population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in glob...

In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to ho...

Epigenetics encompasses all changes in gene expression that occur without alterations to the DNA sequence. These modifications involve DNA methylat...

The use of nanomaterials in food packaging is a rapidly advancing area with massive potential for increasing shelf life and improving the safety of...

This book introduces a comprehensive and sustainable project delivery framework tailored for managing the Water, Energy and Food (WEF) nexus in dev...

This book examines the current food security challenges in the small states with a focus on the Caribbean. The work is in the conjuncture of the Co...

This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing countr...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Panic buying at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic generated enduring media images of em...