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The End of Food<\/em> by Paul Roberts\u00a0\"the<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, riots, and skyrocketing prices are only the latest in a series of food-related crises that have illuminated the failures of the modern food system. In The End of Food, <\/em>Paul Roberts investigates this system and presents a startling truth\u2014how we make, market, and transport our food is no longer compatible with the billions of consumers the system was built to serve. In this vivid narrative, Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and helps us prepare to make the necessary decisions to survive the demise of food production as we know it.
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\"Fresh<\/a>Fresh Fruits, Broken Bodies<\/em> by Seth Holmes<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on 5 years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes\u2019 material is visceral and powerful\u2014 The result is a \u2018thick description\u2019 that conveys the full measure of struggle, suffering and resilience of these farmworkers.
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\"\"<\/a>Foodopoly <\/strong><\/i>by Wenonah Hauter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Foodopoly<\/i><\/span>\u00a0takes aim at the control of food production by a handful of large corporations\u2014backed by political clout\u2014that prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices that people can make in the grocery store.<\/span> Foodopoly<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is the shocking and revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains, and milk that most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health\u2013conscious brands.\u00a0<\/span>Foodopoly\u00a0<\/i><\/span>demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home to famines overseas. In the end, Hauter argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift\u2014a change that is about politics, not just personal choice.
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\"Food<\/a>Food Movements Unite!<\/em> by Eric Holt Giminez<\/strong><\/p>\n

The present corporate food regime dominating the planet\u2019s food systems is environmentally destructive, financially volatile and socially unjust. Though the regime\u2019s contributions to the planet\u2019s four-fold food-fuel-finance and climate crises are well documented, the \u201csolutions\u201d advanced by our national and global institutions reinforce the same destructive technological path, the same global market fundamentalism, and the same unregulated consolidation of corporate power in the food system that brought us the crisis in the first place.
\nFood Movements Unite!<\/em> is a collection of essays by food movement leaders from around the world that all seek to answer the perennial political question: What is to be done?
\nThe answers\u2014from the multiple perspectives of community food security activists, peasants and family farm leaders, labor activists, and leading food systems analysts\u2014will lay out convergent strategies for the fair, sustainable, and democratic transformation of our food systems. Authors will address the corporate food regime head on, arguing persuasively not only for specific changes to the way our food is produced, processed, distributed and consumed, but specifying how these changes may come about, politically.
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Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions <\/strong><\/em>by Philip McMichael<\/strong>\"Food<\/a><\/p>\n

Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis, McMichael re-examines the agrarian question historically and its present-day implications, introduces regional interpretations of the food regime and incorporates gender, labour, financial, ecological and nutritional dimensions into his analysis. Finally, McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food, energy, climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring, which includes agrofuels, land grabbing, the bioeconomy, agro-security mercantilism and the food sovereignty movement.
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\"51aURZp0V7L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg<\/a>Public Produce <\/strong><\/i>by Darrin Nordahl<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Public Produce<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy.\u00a0 This book profiles urban food growing efforts, illustrating that there is both a need and a desire to supplement our existing food production methods outside the city with opportunities inside the city. Each of these efforts works in concert to make fresh produce more available to the public. But each does more too: reinforcing a sense of place and building community; nourishing the needy and providing economic assistance to entrepreneurs; promoting food literacy and good health; and allowing for \u201cserendipitous sustenance.\u201d There is much to be gained, Nordahl writes, in adding a bit of agrarianism into our urbanism.
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\"Stolen<\/a>Stolen Harvest <\/strong><\/em>by Vandana Shiva<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Stolen Harvest, Vandana Shiva charts the impact of globalized, corporate, agriculture on small farmer, the environment and the quality of the food we eat. With chapters on genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, mad cows and sacred cows and the debate on shrimp farming, this is a book that is designed to shape the debate about genetic engineering and commercial agriculture.
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<\/strong><\/a> Stuffed and Starved <\/strong><\/em>by Raj Patel<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.
\nTo find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network.\u00a0 Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and re-balanced global sustenance.
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Tomatoland <\/strong><\/em>by Barry Estabrook<\/strong>\"Tomatoland\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland<\/em>, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, “The Price of Tomatoes,” investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation’s top restaurants.
\nTomatoland<\/em> reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of today’s agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
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\"\"<\/a>Fed Up<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Everything we\u2019ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. FED UP is the film the food industry doesn\u2019t want you to see. From Katie Couric, Laurie David\u00a0 and director Stephanie Soechtig,
\nFED UP will change the way you eat forever.<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/a>A Place at the Table<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A Place at the Table<\/em> shows us how hunger poses srious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides \u2014 as they have in the past \u2014 that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Food Chains<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In this expose, an intrepid group of Florida farm workers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States.More Film Information and Resources<\/strong><\/a>
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