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  • Food Culture
    This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author's own work...
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    184,11 €

  • Food Health
    Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of m...
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    184,29 €

  • Food Research
    Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those me...
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    184,23 €

  • Mapping the Invisible
    Jane Battersby / Maya Marshak / Ncedo Mngqibisa
    This report argues that it is essential to understand  the dynamics of the informal  food retail sector because of its vital role in ensuring  greater access to food by the urban poor. Existing policy frameworks to address food security and to govern the informal sector tend to neglect informal retail in the food system. As a result, the sector is poorly understood. The report ...
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    40,45 €

  • The Social Archaeology of Food
    Christine A. Hastorf / Christine AHastorf
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    140,42 €

  • Agricultural Development and Food Security in Developing Nations
    The development of sustainable agricultural systems is an imperative aspect of any country, but particularly in the context of developing countries. Lack of progress in these initiatives can have negative effects on the nation as a whole. Agricultural Development and Food Security in Developing Nations is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on promoting...
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    262,59 €

  • Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest
    Barbara J Roth / Barbara J. Roth / Barbara JRoth
    How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect the ancient peoples living in the region? In pursuit of answers to these questions, Barbara Roth synthesizes data from both CRM and academic research to explore the emergence and imp...
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    127,78 €

  • Heritage Arena
    Cristina Grasseni
    In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga of Strachitunt, a cheese that has been designated an EU Protected Designation of...
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    184,50 €

  • THE CONCEPTUAL STRATEGY FOR HUMANKIND’S SURVIVAL IN THE XXI CENTURY AND FOOD SECURITY
    A ASHIROV / ORAZALY SABDEN
    As the third millennium dawns, this world storms and changes unpredictably.  Hence, it has become difficult to calculate what to expect on the morrow. Indeed, questions of recovery from innumerable crises (along with any possible rescue plan for humankind from adverse global conditions), are now paramount. After all, dangers such as rapid climate change, water scarcity, not to ...
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    28,57 €

  • American Farms, American Food
    Christopher R Laingen / Christopher R. Laingen / Christopher RLaingen / John C Hudson / John C. Hudson / John CHudson
    American Farms, American Food bridges the gap between agricultural production and food studies allowing readers to learn about both subjects up close and in detail. Beyond that, the book provides background on the domestication, breeding, and development of crop plants and livestock that have become the food we eat. Themes such as the family farm, local food production, organic...
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    121,16 €

  • Haying With Horses
    Lynn R Miller
    Haying with Horses by Lynn R. Miller is THE definitive volume on, and an exhaustive manual of, how to make hay employing true horsepower with ground-drive implements. Includes procedures, operation and care of equipment, animal power concerns, and farming variables. This book is a mixture of old and new imagery and information. Over 1,000 illustrations.Haying with Horses is one...
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    52,57 €

  • Food in the Air and Space
    Richard Foss
    In the history of cooking, there has been no more challenging environment than those craft in which humans took to the skies. The tale begins with meals aboard balloons and zeppelins, where cooking was accomplished below explosive bags of hydrogen, ending with space station dinners that were cooked thousands of miles below.This book is the first to chart that history worldwide,...
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    37,77 €

  • Food Science, Production, and Engineering in Contemporary Economies
    Andrei Jean-Vasile
    As the population of the world continues to surge upwards, it is apparent that the global economy is unable to meet the nutritional needs of such a large populace. In an effort to circumvent a deepening food crisis, it is pertinent to develop new sustainability strategies and practices. Food Science, Production, and Engineering in Contemporary Economies features timely and rele...
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    332,51 €

  • L’Emprise du Mondialisme - L’Empoisonnement Global
    Christian Rouas
    La manigance biotechnologique concoctée par le milieu scientifique corrompu en liaison avec les élites du système fait son office au détriment de la santé des populations par trop naïves. Lesquelles n’ont pas la moindre idée des conséquences des poisons qu’elles ingèrent au quotidien. Soyez assuré que les hauts dirigeants de la FAO, du Codex Alimentarius, de l’OMS, du corps méd...
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    28,89 €

  • At the Table
    Ken Albala
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    142,30 €

  • Agriculture and Economic Growth
    Bruce F. Johnston / Bruce FJohnston / Hiromitsu Kaneda / Kazushi Ohkawa
    This book contains updated versions of a set of papers presented at the International Conference on Agriculture and Economic Development-A Symposium on Japan’s Experience which was held in Tokyo, July, 1967. These papers make a comprehensive reappraisal of Japan’s agricultural development and its relevance to economic growth over the last 100 years. They emphasize long-term stu...
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    259,37 €

  • Food in the Gilded Age
    Robert Dirks
    The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habit...
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    55,88 €

  • New Orleans
    Elizabeth M Williams / Elizabeth M. Williams / Elizabeth MWilliams
    New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. ...
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    24,08 €

  • CRUCIAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY
    Ray Trewin
    Following recent price spikes, food policy will continue to be of crucial concern to developing countries for the foreseeable future. Governments are trying to manage their food issues, but would need critical economic policy analysis to do so appropriately. The aim of this invaluable book is to present economy-wide but detailed information that will facilitate state-of-the-art...
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    131,26 €

  • I Eat, Therefore I Think
    Raymond D. Boisvert / Raymond DBoisvert
    I Eat, Therefore I Think breaks new ground by introducing philosophy via an activity central to life: eating. Building on the original meaning of philosophy as love of wisdom, it explains how the search for wisdom can best succeed by addressing, not just mind, but the entire human being. Eating, an activity that integrates physiological, social, religious, cultural, ethical, an...
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    57,30 €

  • Assessing Policy Interventions in Agri-Business and Allied Sector Credit Versus Credit Plus Approach for Livelihood Promotion
    Samar K. Datta
    This book brings out the results from a sample of 350 households across the States of West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat to highlight the importance of credit plus (versus minimalist) activities in livelihood promotions. This study strongly advocates promotion of a careful and healthy growth, besides observed complementarily, across public, private and community initiatives ...
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    17,72 €

  • Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity
    Janet Page-Reeves
    Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women’s agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women creatively and strategically re-structure their own fields of action in relation to ...
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    74,47 €

  • Foodways and Empathy
    Anita von Poser
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    175,06 €

  • Kansas City
    Andrea Broomfield / Andrea L. Broomfield / Andrea LBroomfield
    While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals a...
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    55,74 €

  • Food and Agriculture during the Civil War
    R. Hurt / RHurt
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    82,48 €

  • What I Stand On
    Bill Dow
    Before he died in 2012, organic farmer Bill Dow sat down to tell this account of his lifelong food activism and path-breaking farming methods. Raised on a family farm in Mississippi, Bill went to medical school in the sixties. Running into injustice at every turn, he combined his knowledge of farming with a passion for public health to focus on healthy, organic food. Decades be...
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    12,01 €

  • Environment, Agriculture and Cross-border Migrations
    Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
    This book brings together contributions on the challenges of the environment, agriculture and cross-border migrations in Africa; key areas that have become critical for the continent’s development. The central theme running through these contributions is that Africa’s development challenges can be attributed to its human and natural ecology. Contrasted with the Cold War epoch, ...
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    46,17 €

  • Food and Everyday Life
    Thomas M. Conroy / Thomas MConroy
    Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the 'ordinary, everyday' perspective on food. These studies highlight aspects of food production, dis...
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    63,67 €

  • Ogata-Mura
    Donald C. Wood / Donald CWood
    'In his densely detailed, long-term study of Ogata-mura, Wood has taken us a lifetime away from the first studies of Japanese villages carried out by foreigners in the 1930s and 1950s... Wood presents an excellent analysis of the conflict between the view held by some residents that farming is a way of life and the conviction by others that it is a business like any other. The ...
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    44,48 €

  • Nazi Hunger Politics
    Gesine Gerhard
    During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. The mass murder of Soviet soldiers and civil...
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    60,14 €


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