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Author:   Tamar Mayer ,  Molly D. Anderson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138358850

ISBN 10:   1138358851
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   24 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1 Food insecurity in context MOLLY D. ANDERSON AND TAMAR MAYER; 2 Causes and consequences of njaa (hunger) in the household: food security and intimate partner violence within an informal settlement in Mombasa, Kenya ADAM GILBERTSON; 3 Food is a gift of the earth: food sovereignty among migrant farmworkers in rural Vermont JESSIE MAZAR AND TERESA MARES; 4 Food insecurity and the struggle for food sovereignty in the time of structural adjustment: the case of Greece CHARALAMPOS KONSTANTINIDIS; 5 Food insecurity in the age of neoliberalism in Turkey and its neighbors MURAT ÖZTÜRK, FAIK GÜR, AND JOOST JONGERDEN; 6 Links between land access, land use, and hunger in today’s neoliberal Nicaragua BIRGIT SCHMOOK, LINDSEY CARTE, CLAUDIA RADEL, AND SANTANA NAVARRO OLMEDO; 7 Global water grabbing and food insecurity JAMPEL DELL’ANGELO, MARIA CRISTINA RULLI, AND PAOLO D’ODORICO; 8 Food security in a premodern agrarian empire: the case of Rome KYLE HARPER; 9 The transformation of famine relief regimes in modern China PIERRE FULLER; 10 Bitter greens and sweet potatoes: food practice and memories of hunger in rural China ELLEN OXFELD; 11 ""Groveling for lentils"": the culture and memory of food scarcity in occupied France PAULA SCHWARTZ; 12 Coping with food safety risks: information sources and responses by residents in Japan in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident TOMIKO YAMAGUCHI AND JOO-YOUNG JUNG; 13 Framing food insecurity and the GMO ""problem"" in transatlantic trade PATRICIA A. STAPLETON"

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Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College, Vermont, where she is the director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. She is the editor or co-editor of five books that focus on various dimensions of international and global crises. Molly D. Anderson is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies and Academic Director of Food Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont. She works on food system transformations toward greater resilience and sustainability, the right to food, and the intersections of civil society and academic perspectives.

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