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Exploring Food Security through the Culinary Footprint

Exploring Food Security through the Culinary Footprint

by Bloomsbury
Publication Date: 26/03/2015

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Written by a leading scholar on public health and food, this key text introduces a new core concept to fuel our understanding of contemporary food system - the culinary footprint. In the same way as the carbon footprint, this rubric provides a way of capturing the impact of household and individual food production and consumption trends upon international food security and sustainability. With the epidemic of food-related diseases, highly processed foods and global supply chains co-existing alongside our desire for nutritional, ethical and local foods, this is a timely reminder that we need to develop a more nuanced understanding of consumption - showing how global food chains and process influence how we eat and how individual demands can skew the wider agri-food system.a The linking of certain foods with nutrition or health qualities is now something we take for granted and yet Dixon demonstrates how this has a major economic and ecological effect upon the global food system by privileging certain foods and interests - putting the prospect of a long-term sustainable and food secure future under threat.
ISBN:
9780857855510
9780857855510
Category:
Food & society
Publication Date:
26-03-2015
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
160
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