Food

About this book

In this book an international and multidisciplinary team of leading academics reviews the recent research on food. Current food policies are assessed and their implications for both advanced and underdeveloped societies are discussed. Covers the relationship between diet and disease in conditions of affluence and of scarcity and famine; the symbolic, social and political meaning of food; gender issues; agricultural food production and poverty; industrial food production and the politics and regulation of its distribution; and international nutritional justice and its ethical basis.