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Reclaiming food security
Title:
Reclaiming food security
Author:
Carolan, Michael S.
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description:
xvii, 196 p. : ill.
Series:
Earthscan food and agriculture

Earthscan food and agriculture.
Contents:
A failed project -- Food security: a brief history -- Calorie-ization of food security -- Neoliberalization of food security -- Empty calorie-ization of food security -- Pieces missed -- Well-being and nutrition -- Life expectancy -- Subjective indicators of well-being -- Aggregate well-being indicators -- Nutritional well-being -- Sustainability -- Greenhouse gas emissions -- Energy consumption -- Water -- Waste -- Meat -- Environmental performance index: agriculture -- Food sovereignty, safety and access -- Farmer dependency -- Constricting consumer choice -- Food safety -- Import dependency -- Looking forward -- The food and human security index -- Individual and society well-being -- Ecological sustainability -- Potential for food independence -- Nutritional well-being -- Freedom in agrifood chain -- Results -- Lessons learned -- From Green Revolution to rainbow evolution -- So what can we eat if not GDP? -- Food security as process (not a thing) -- Towards a new social imaginary.
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