Böcker i Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment-serien

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

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.

This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in North and South America, Asia and Europe.

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.

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system.

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system.

Critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. This title details the numerous ways that food has become reduced to a state, such as a price per ounce, combination of nutrients, yield per acre, or calories.

This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological economics, development economics and environmental economics, as well as policymakers and practitioners in sustainable development.

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda.

This book interrogates when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, a period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of this global food crisis.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available, and politically viable and offers strategies for achieving sustainable food systems without having to forgo succulence, sensuality and sacredness of food.

Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security.

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities.

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

Risk and Food Safety in China and Japan reframes the relationship between risk and food. This book will be an important resource for scholars, academics and policy-makers in the fields of sociology, economics, food studies, Chinese studies and Japanese studies and theories of risks and safety.