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  | | Food Justice(Reprint) (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51866-6, ISBN: 0-262-51866-X "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 American fast-food franchises has been a major contributor to an epidemic of "globesity." To combat these ..." |
 | | Big Hunger The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Andrew Fisher, Saru Jayaraman, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03608-5, ISBN: 0-262-03608-8 "How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a s ..." |
 | | Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice From Loncheras to Lobsta Love (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Julian Agyeman, Caitlin Matthews, Hannah Sobel, Kathleen Dunn, Ginette Wessel, Mark Vallianatos, Sean Basinski, Matthew Shapiro, Alfonso Morales, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Ana Croegaert, Amy Hanser, Phoebe Godfrey, Robert Lemon, Edward Whittall, Nina Martin, Alan Nash, Mackenzie Wood, Jennifer Clark, Emma French, Nathan Mcclintock, Alex Novie, Matthew Gebhardt, Lenore Lauri Newman, Katherine Alexandra Newman, Robert Gottlieb, The Mit Press, Mun S. Ho Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03657-3, ISBN: 0-262-03657-6 "Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving lobster rolls. Customers range from gastro-tourists to construction workers, all eager for food that is delicious, authentic, and relatively in ..." |
 | | Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice(1st Edition) From Loncheras to Lobsta Love (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Julian Agyeman, Caitlin Matthews, Hannah Sobel, Kathleen Dunn, Ginette Wessel, Mark Vallianatos, Sean Basinski, Matthew Shapiro, Alfonso Morales, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Ana Croegaert, Amy Hanser, Phoebe Godfrey, Robert Lemon, Edward Whittall, Nina Martin, Alan Nash, Mackenzie Wood, Jennifer Clark, Emma French, Nathan Mcclintock, Alex Novie, Matthew Gebhardt, Lenore Lauri Newman, Katherine Alexandra Newman, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 346 Pages, Published 2017 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53407-9, ISBN: 0-262-53407-X "Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving lobster rolls. Customers range from gastro-tourists to construction workers, all eager for food that is delicious, authentic, and relatively in ..." |
 | | Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance(1st Edition) (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Jennifer Clapp, Doris Fuchs, Robert Falkner, Agni Kalfagianni, Steffanie Scott, Maarten Arentsen, Elizabeth Smythe, Peter Vandergeest, Marc Williams, Mary Young, Peter J. Newell, Susan K. Sell, Mun S. Ho, Robert Gottlieb Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51237-4, ISBN: 0-262-51237-8 "In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sector ..." |
 | | Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance(1st Edition) (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Jennifer Clapp, Doris Fuchs, Maarten Arentsen, Robert Falkner, Agni Kalfagianni, Peter J. Newell, Susan K. Sell, Steffanie Scott, Elizabeth Smythe, Peter Vandergeest, Marc Williams, Mary Young, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01275-1, ISBN: 0-262-01275-8 "In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sector ..." |
 | | Big Hunger(Reprint) The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Andrew Fisher, Saru Jayaraman, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53516-8, ISBN: 0-262-53516-5 "How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a s ..." |
 | | Organic Struggle(Reprint) The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Brian K. Obach, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53374-4, ISBN: 0-262-53374-X "An analysis of the successes and failures of the organic movement, focusing on coalition dynamics, movement-state relations, and market-based strategies for social change. In the early 1970s, organic farming was an obscure agricultural practice, associated with the counterculture rather than commerce. Today, organic agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry; organic food can be found on the shelves of every supermarket in America. ..." |
 | | Agroecology in Action(1st Edition) Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Keith Douglass Warner, Foreword-Fred Kirschenmann, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2006 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-73180-5, ISBN: 0-262-73180-0 "American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollution--runoffs of pesticides, nutrients, and sediments into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In Agroecology in Action, Keith Douglass Warner describes agroecology, an emerging scient ..." |
 | | California Cuisine and Just Food (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Sally K. Fairfax, Greig Tor Guthey, Louise Nelson Dyble, Monica Moore, Lauren Gwin, Jennifer Sokolove, Marion Nestle, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2012 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51786-7, ISBN: 0-262-51786-8 "Can a celebrity chef find common ground with an urban community organizer? Can a maker of organic cheese and a farm worker share an agenda for improving America's food? In the San Francisco Bay area, unexpected alliances signal the widening concerns of diverse alternative food proponents. What began as niche preoccupations with parks, the environment, food aesthetics, and t ..." |
 | | Seeds, Science, and Struggle The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Abby J. Kinchy, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51774-4, ISBN: 0-262-51774-4 "Genetic engineering has a wide range of cultural, economic, and ethical implications, yet it has become almost an article of faith that regulatory decisions about biotechnology be based only on evidence of specific quantifiable risks; to consider anything else is said to "politicize" regulation. In this study of social protest against genetically engineered food, Abby Kinch ..." |
 | | Cultivating Food Justice Race, Class, and Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Julian Agyeman, Alison Hope Alkon, Nancy Peluso, Jennifer Sowerwine, Christy Getz, Nathan Mcclintock, Sandy Brown, Alfonso Morales, Priscilla Mccutcheon, Jesse Mcentee, Ron Reedsr., Julie Guthman, David Goodman, Kari Marie Norgaard, John J. Green, Eleanor M. Green, Anna M. Kleiner, Teresa M. Mares, Devon G. Peña, Amy Breeze Harper, E. Melanie Dupuis, Carolina Van Horn, Jill Lindsey Harrison, Eric Holt-Giménez, Robert Gottlieb, Marilyn A. Alkon, Mun S. Ho, Hector J. Levesque Paperback, 404 Pages, Published 2011 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51632-7, ISBN: 0-262-51632-2 "Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. These communities h ..." |
 | | Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Jill Lindsey Harrison, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho, Elisha Goldstein Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2011 by The Mit Press Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51628-0, ISBN: 0-262-51628-4 "The widespread but virtually invisible problem of pesticide drift--the airborne movement of agricultural pesticides into residential areas--has fueled grassroots activism from Maine to Hawaii. Pesticide drift accidents have terrified and sickened many living in the country's most marginalized and vulnerable communities. In this book, Jill Lindsey Harrison considers poli ..." |
 | | Food and the Mid-Level Farm(1st Edition) Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Rick Welsh, Thomas A. Lyson, G. W. Stevenson, Mike Duffy, Amy Guptill, William Heffernan, David Lind, Elizabeth Barham, Eileen Brady, Caitlin O'brady, Rich Pirog, Shelley Grow, Elizabeth Higgins, Peter Carstensen, Fred Kirschenmann, Mary Hendrickson, Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Dahlberg, Thomas W. Gray, Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer, Sandra S. Batie, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho, The Mit Press Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-62215-8, ISBN: 0-262-62215-7 "Agriculture in the United States today increasingly operates in two separate spheres: large, corporate-connected commodity production and distribution systems and small-scale farms that market directly to consumers. As a result, midsize family-operated farms find it increasingly difficult to find and reach markets for their products. They are too big to use the direct marke ..." |
 | | Food and the Mid-Level Farm(1st Edition) Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Thomas A. Lyson, Rick Welsh, G. W. Stevenson, Fred Kirschenmann, Frederick H. Buttel, Mike Duffy, Kenneth A. Dahlberg, Thomas W. Gray, Amy Guptill, Mary Hendrickson, William Heffernan, David Lind, Elizabeth Barham, Eileen Brady, Caitlin O'brady, Rich Pirog, Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer, Shelley Grow, Elizabeth Higgins, Sandra S. Batie, Peter Carstensen, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-12299-3, ISBN: 0-262-12299-5 "Practitioners and scholars from a range of disciplines discuss how midsize farms can better connect with consumers, organize collectively to develop markets for their products, and promote public policies that address agriculture-of-the-middle issues.Agriculture in the United States today increasingly operates in two separate spheres: large, corporate-connected commodity production and distribution systems and small-scale farms that mar ..." |
 | | Confronting the Coffee Crisis(8th Edition) Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America (Food, Health, and the Environment) by David Goodman, Christopher M. Bacon, Stephen R. Gliessman, Jonathan A. Fox, V. Ernesto Méndez, Seth Petchers, Shayna Harris, Laura Trujillo, Tad Mutersbaugh, Sasha Courville, Roberta Jaffe, Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti, Silke Mason Westphal, David B. Bray, Ellen Contreras Murphy, Johnathan A. Fox, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho, The Mit Press Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52480-3, ISBN: 0-262-52480-5 "Our morning cups of coffee connect us to a global industry and an export crisis in the tropics that is destroying livelihoods, undermining the cohesion of families and communities, and threatening ecosystems. Confronting the Coffee Crisis explores small-scale farming, the political economy of the global coffee industry, and initiatives that claim to promote more sustainable ..." |