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Wielding the food lens brilliantly, Alana Mann issues a wake-up call to the plunder of life-worlds and ecosystems at this geological tipping point. Her comprehensive account of planetary and species damage by industrial food, now intensifying claims to a future of lab-grown nutritionism, is exceptional. She brings her remarkable communication skills to critique the corporate scientism of food engineering, and the urgency of restoring sovereignty to diverse food cultures in the illiberal shadow of standardization. Food in a Changing Climate is a disturbing reminder of the plantation-like mindsets and practices of a globalized food system, and the need to replace it with an ethical world in which many worlds may fit sustainably. -- Philip McMichael, Cornell University. Don't be fooled, this compact book speaks volumes to the civilizational crisis facing our societies-and to the strategies that can help us put our food systems back on track. Food in a Changing Climate brings together a wide range of data, information and expert opinion-as well as ancient wisdom-for a trenchant, analysis of our dysfunctional capitalist food system. Can we feed the world with GMOs? Will fake meat cool the planet? Is the Blue Revolution the answer to overfishing? Dr. Alana Mann bravely takes on these issues in clear, no-nonsense language. Uncompromisingly honest, this book is a must-read for students of food studies and food activists seeking the facts and the language to speak truth to the power in our food system. -- Eric Holt-Gimenez, Former Executive Director of Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First. Food in a Changing Climate could not be more timely, as Covid-19 has revealed the enormous institutional vulnerabilities of existing food system while the Black Lives Matter movement is propelling a long overdue reckoning with the insidiousness of racial capitalism. With impressive grounding in international scholarship, Alana Mann asks her readers to attend to the complex ecologies, cultures, and political economies in which food is entwined and commit to a food politics that does not shy away from the difficult questions. -- Julie Guthman,Professor of Social Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz.

Food in a Changing Climate could not be more timely, as Covid-19 has revealed the enormous institutional vulnerabilities of existing food system while the Black Lives Matter movement is propelling a long overdue reckoning with the insidiousness of racial capitalism. With impressive grounding in international scholarship, Alana Mann asks her readers to attend to the complex ecologies, cultures, and political economies in which food is entwined and commit to a food politics that does not shy away from the difficult questions. -- Julie Guthman,Professor of Social Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz. Don't be fooled, this compact book speaks volumes to the civilizational crisis facing our societies-and to the strategies that can help us put our food systems back on track. Food in a Changing Climate brings together a wide range of data, information and expert opinion-as well as ancient wisdom-for a trenchant, analysis of our dysfunctional capitalist food system. Can we feed the world with GMOs? Will fake meat cool the planet? Is the Blue Revolution the answer to overfishing? Dr. Alana Mann bravely takes on these issues in clear, no-nonsense language. Uncompromisingly honest, this book is a must-read for students of food studies and food activists seeking the facts and the language to speak truth to the power in our food system. -- Eric Holt-Gimenez, Former Executive Director of Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First. Wielding the food lens brilliantly, Alana Mann issues a wake-up call to the plunder of life-worlds and ecosystems at this geological tipping point. Her comprehensive account of planetary and species damage by industrial food, now intensifying claims to a future of lab-grown nutritionism, is exceptional. She brings her remarkable communication skills to critique the corporate scientism of food engineering, and the urgency of restoring sovereignty to diverse food cultures in the illiberal shadow of standardization. Food in a Changing Climate is a disturbing reminder of the plantation-like mindsets and practices of a globalized food system, and the need to replace it with an ethical world in which many worlds may fit sustainably. -- Philip McMichael, Cornell University.

Food in a Changing Climate could not be more timely, as Covid-19 has revealed the enormous institutional vulnerabilities of existing food system while the Black Lives Matter movement is propelling a long overdue reckoning with the insidiousness of racial capitalism. With impressive grounding in international scholarship, Alana Mann asks her readers to attend to the complex ecologies, cultures, and political economies in which food is entwined and commit to a food politics that does not shy away from the difficult questions. -- Julie Guthman,Professor of Social Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz. Don't be fooled, this compact book speaks volumes to the civilizational crisis facing our societies-and to the strategies that can help us put our food systems back on track. Food in a Changing Climate brings together a wide range of data, information and expert opinion-as well as ancient wisdom-for a trenchant, analysis of our dysfunctional capitalist food system. Can we feed the world with GMOs? Will fake meat cool the planet? Is the Blue Revolution the answer to overfishing? Dr. Alana Mann bravely takes on these issues in clear, no-nonsense language. Uncompromisingly honest, this book is a must-read for students of food studies and food activists seeking the facts and the language to speak truth to the power in our food system. -- Eric Holt-Giménez, Former Executive Director of Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First. Wielding the food lens brilliantly, Alana Mann issues a wake-up call to the plunder of life-worlds and ecosystems at this geological tipping point. Her comprehensive account of planetary and species damage by industrial food, now intensifying claims to a future of lab-grown nutritionism, is exceptional. She brings her remarkable communication skills to critique the corporate scientism of food engineering, and the urgency of restoring sovereignty to diverse food cultures in the illiberal shadow of standardization. Food in a Changing Climate is a disturbing reminder of the plantation-like mindsets and practices of a globalized food system, and the need to replace it with an ethical world in which many worlds may fit sustainably. -- Philip McMichael, Cornell University.

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Alana Mann is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. A political economist in food studies, her research focuses on the international food sovereignty movement and other efforts to democratise food systems.

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