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Food Wars

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The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets

Food Wars

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Food Wars book

The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets
ByTim Lang, Michael Heasman
Edition 2nd Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 30 October 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315754116
Pages 324
eBook ISBN 9781315754116
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Food Science & Technology, Geography, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality and Events
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Lang, T., & Heasman, M. (2015). Food Wars: The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315754116

ABSTRACT

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy. 

The key theme of the importance of integrating human and environmental health has become even more pressing. In the first edition the authors set out and brought together the different strands of emerging agendas and competing narratives. The second edition retains the same core structure and includes updated examples, case studies and the new issues which show how these conflicting tendencies have played out in practice over recent years and what this tells us about the way the global food system is heading. Examples of key issues given increased attention include: 

  • nutrition, including the global rise in obesity, as well as chronic conditions, hunger and under-nutrition
  • the environment, particularly the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, water stress and food security
  • food industry concentration and market power
  • volatility and uncertainty over food prices and policy responses
  • tensions over food, democracy and citizenship
  • social and cultural aspects impacting food and nutrition policies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|15 pages

Introduction: The food policy problem

chapter 2|42 pages

The Food Wars thesis

chapter 3|38 pages

Diet, health and disease

chapter 4|35 pages

Food, environment and sustainability

chapter 5|37 pages

Policy responses to food’s role in human and environmental health

chapter 6|52 pages

The Food Wars business

chapter 7|33 pages

The consumer culture war

chapter 8|26 pages

Food democracy or food control?

chapter 9|11 pages

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