This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level.
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Amy Trauger is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. She is Affiliate Faculty with UGA's Institute for Women's Studies, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research. Her research interests include: food sovereignty, sustainable and alternative agriculture, human-environment interactions, gender and agriculture, and indigenous political struggle. She's taught the Geography of Food and the Athens Urban Food Collective courses at UGA nearly every year since she arrived in 2008. Before that, she taught the Geography of Sustainability at Penn State University. She has written, edited and collaborated on four books on the topics of food, agriculture and the environment. Her book, We Want Land to Live, (2017) is used in graduate and advanced undergraduate classes in the US. Her work is widely used by professors teaching courses on the geography of food and agriculture, including Iowa State University, West Virginia University, Tufts University, Cornell and Washington State.
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Etat : Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level. It takes an intersectional approach to difference and power and approaches standard subjects in the geography of food with a fresh perspective focusing on inequality, uneven production and legacies of colonialism. The book also focuses on places and regions often overlooked in conventional narratives, such as the Americas in the domestication of plants. The topics covered in the textbook include:descriptions and analyses of food systemshistories of agricultural development with a focus on the roles of different regionsmajor commodities such as meat, grains and produce with a focus on the place of production contemporary challenges in the food system, including labor, disasters/conflict and climate changerecent and emerging trends in food and agriculture such as lab-grown meat and vertical urban farmsGeographies of Food and Power takes a synthetic approach by discussing food as something produced within an interconnected system, in which labor, food quality and the environment are considered together. It will be a valuable resource for students of human geography, environmental geography, economic geography, food studies and development. N° de réf. du vendeur 38738655/1
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