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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food (No-Nonsense Guides)
The NoNonsense Guide to World Food - No-Nonsense Guides Author:Wayne Roberts Skyrocketing food prices, escalating levels of obesity, and worrisome threats to farm and fish harvests from global warming and climate chaos are making food stories headline news around the world. No Nonsense Guide to World Food, written by Dr. Wayne Roberts, a leading public health policy analyst and organizer, analyzes the 60-year evolution o... more »f a global "cheap food system," and traces today's emerging food crisis to decades of severing the natural links connecting food to human, environmental, and social health.
This is the first popular book to analyze food problems as part of an overall food system. It's also a happy find among contemporary food books: written with wit and zest, packed with on-the-spot reports of heartwarming experiments around the world, and loaded with hopeful and doable proposals based on the author's years of experience as a professional food organizer with Toronto Public Health, the leading city public health unit in North America.« less