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Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation
This Open Access book compiles the findings of the Scientific Group of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 and its research partners. The Scientific Group was an independent group of 28 food systems scientists from all over the world with a mandate from the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. The chapters provide science- and research-based, state-of-the-art, solution-ori…
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Achieving Zero Hunger in India
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
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- 978-981-99-4412-5
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- IX, 344
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Umami
This Open Access book covers the concept of umami, the unique taste imparted by the amino acid glutamate, was first described in 1908 by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo University. Over the past century, hundreds of studies have explored the mechanistic underpinnings of the taste, leading to the characterization of the umami taste receptor in 2002. How this fifth basic taste figures into nutrition a…
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- 978-3-031-32691-2
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America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat
We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from many different cattle raised in several different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract unders…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 336 pages) :illustrations, map
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Food routes:growing bananas in Iceland and other tales from the logistics of …
Finding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table. Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we buy organic, believe in slow food, and read Eater --we probably don't know much about how food gets to the table. What happens between the farm and the kitchen Why are all avocados from Mexico Why does a restaurant in Maine order lamb from New Zealand…
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California cuisine and just food
An account of the shift in focus to access and fairness among San Francisco Bay Area alternative food activists and advocates.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305853
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The immigrant-food nexus :borders, labor, and identity in North America
The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways. This volume considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the microscale of immigrant foodways--the intimate, daily performances of identity, culture, and community through food.OCLC-licensed …
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Food justice /
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
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- 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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The meat question :animals, humans, and the deep history of food
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- 9780262354806
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- 1 online resource (312 pages).
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Acquired tastes :stories about the origins of modern food
"The stories in this collection open a window onto those new categories in the making. Taken together, they call for new approaches to the history of global food, and using this history to think about our future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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