Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food, society and the environment. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities
1st Edition
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By Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush, Cameron McCordic
July 29, 2019
Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of ...
Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
1st Edition
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By Naomi Hossain, Patta Scott-Villiers
May 21, 2019
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book ...
Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space: La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security
1st Edition
By Ingeborg Gaarde
April 15, 2019
Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Vía Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene. This book explores the internationalisation of the movement, with a specific focus on the engagement of ...
The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country case studies
1st Edition
By Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol
February 04, 2019
It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline – "Democracy, good governance, human ...
Transforming Gender and Food Security in the Global South
1st Edition
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By Jemimah Njuki, John Parkins, Amy Kaler
February 04, 2019
Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of ...
Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning
1st Edition
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By Rob Roggema
January 17, 2019
As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities. It ...
Urban Food Planning: Seeds of Transition in the Global North
1st Edition
By Rositsa T. Ilieva
January 14, 2019
This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade. It sheds light on cities as new spaces for food system innovation and on ...
Food Sovereignty in International Context: Discourse, politics and practice of place
1st Edition
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By Amy Trauger
June 08, 2018
Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food sovereignty has proliferated since the first usage of the term in 1996 at the Rome Food Summit, most has ...
Food Systems Governance: Challenges for justice, equality and human rights
1st Edition
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By Amanda Kennedy, Jonathan Liljeblad
June 08, 2018
Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas. This book shows that food governance issues can occur in many ways and at many points along the food chain. The risks and impacts, particularly ...
Food Bank Nations: Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food
1st Edition
By Graham Riches
April 24, 2018
In the world’s most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the ...
Eating Traditional Food: Politics, identity and practices
1st Edition
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By Brigitte Sebastia
January 08, 2018
Due to its centrality in human activities, food is a meaningful object that necessarily participates in any cultural, social and ideological construction and its qualification as 'traditional' is a politically laden value. This book demonstrates that traditionality as attributed to foods ...
Feeding Cities: Improving local food access, security, and resilience
1st Edition
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By Christopher Bosso
January 08, 2018
There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, ...