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£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526151551 | ISBN 10: 1526151553
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled a ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141992990 | ISBN 10: 0141992999
The Sunday Times bestseller
Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeÂ
'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthÂ
From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800816510 | ISBN 10: 1800816510
The food system no longer serves us: it's killing us. Here's why we should be hungry for change.
'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector
'Ravenous is a revelation: a fast-paced, entertaining and often jaw-dropping guide to the modern ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472969637 | ISBN 10: 1472969634
The food stories behind your favourite fruits and vegetables.
Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana? Or why we can buy British strawberries in April? How far do you think your green beans travelled to get to your plate? And ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861542185 | ISBN 10: 0861542185
In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-resistant bugs lay waste to crops across the globe, from bananas to potatoes. Food production releases billions of tons of carbon into the wo ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241404805 | ISBN 10: 0241404800
How does Britain get its food?
Why is our current system at breaking point?
How can we fix it before it is too late?
British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food h ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857845030 | ISBN 10: 0857845039
25% of greenhouse gas emissions come from food - how can we reduce this?
What effect does the food we eat have on the environment?
How will climate change affect the food we will eat in the future?
Can the choices we make as consumers red ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472138125 | ISBN 10: 1472138120
How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?
The story of sugar, and of mankind's de ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781612121802 | ISBN 10: 1612121802
One person really can make a difference.
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From starting neighborhood kitchens to connecting food pantries with local family farms, Ali Berlow offers a variety of simple and practical strategies for improving your community’s food quality a ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745337708 | ISBN 10: 0745337708
*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*
Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support. Post-Brexit, that support will vanish - ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783608225 | ISBN 10: 1783608226
A radical new vision for global food production, from one of the world’s most iconic environmental thinkers.
The world’s food supply is in the grip of a profound crisis. Humanity’s ability to feed itself is threatened by a wasteful, gl ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909248489 | ISBN 10: 1909248487
• March on the markets: The West Country Food Riots of 1766
• Against the grain: The Ely and Littleport ‘Bread and Beer’ Riots of 1816 • The development of the modern food system and the growing battle for ‘Food Security’
Th ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780236681 | ISBN 10: 1780236689
The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators, and industry representatives. While proponents portray genetic modification as scientific progress, opponents reframe it as a form ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780816698134 | ISBN 10: 0816698139
Freegans, who try to live on what we throw away, reveal the limits of capitalism but also the limits of consumer activism in changing it.
Freegans is a close look at people who live on what capitalism throws away — including food culled from supe ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007548354 | ISBN 10: 0007548354
Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How ‘natural’ is the process for making a ‘natural’ flavouring? What, exact ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408846346 | ISBN 10: 1408846349
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reachi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781250358 | ISBN 10: 1781250359
A passionate argument that asks 'can the world feed itself?' Comparable to Jared Diamond in its compelling and accessible narrative style.
This subject is as big as they come: the world's food supply.
Written for a popular audience, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241967829 | ISBN 10: 0241967821
Felicity Lawrence's Sunday Times bestseller Not on the Label, updated with extraordinary new material on the horsemeat scandal.
In 2004 Felicity Lawrence published her ground-breaking book, Not on the Label, where, in a series of undercover inv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9788895604138 | ISBN 10: 889560413x
Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy — and this could be done without cruelty, or destroying our fellow creatures. By 2050 we will need to feed 9.5 billion people — ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857490292 | ISBN 10: 085749029x
With increasing hunger in the world, especially among marginalised populations in both the North and South, the current high-input, industrialised, market-driven food system is failing. It is failing to provide for the food needs of all people, faili ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848133839 | ISBN 10: 1848133839
Food versus Fuel presents a high-level introduction to the science and economics behind a well-worn debate, that will debunk myths and provide quality facts and figures for academics and practitioners in development studies, environment studies, and ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848135185 | ISBN 10: 1848135181
World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially "obese", more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energ ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906863050 | ISBN 10: 1906863059
Combining thought-provoking graphic imagery with truly alarming information culled from some of the most authoritative sources around the world, The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts is literally jam-packed with essential truths you need to know abo ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781595581914 | ISBN 10: 159558191x
Where’s the beef? In the news, that’s where. More than ever, meat is making the headlines and growing numbers of people are becoming more informed and passionate about what they eat. The facts are compelling: contamination cases are on the rise, obes ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141036342 | ISBN 10: 0141036346
The world has a 'food problem' - rapidly rising prices, shortages, 100 million people starving, environmental depredation - or it thinks it does. This book shows that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe disc ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596424 | ISBN 10: 0747596425
How the era of postwar superabundance is coming to and end and what awaits us – by the author of the best-selling The End of Oil.
The emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance – but at a steep and ultimately unsusta ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848133150 | ISBN 10: 1848133154
Climate change will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.
In Soil Not Oil, bestselling author Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show th ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745327402 | ISBN 10: 0745327400
Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the w ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781842777954 | ISBN 10: 1842777955
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Food mountains, bountiful supermarkets and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast t ... more
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£14.50 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9788890196089 | ISBN 10: 8890196084
When agriculture is expressly designed to feed people, all the associated problems seem to solve themselves. In essence, feeding people is easy.
The message of Feeding People is Easy is the most important that can be conceived. We can feed oursel ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845295110 | ISBN 10: 1845295110
You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco.
The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, direc ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745324395 | ISBN 10: 0745324398
Where does the food on your plate really come from? Andy Rees exposes how our food has been hijacked by the biotech industry - and who's paying the price... Is the food on our shelves free of genetically engineered ingredients? Although they may ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007219940 | ISBN 10: 0007219946
What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we? Welcome to the country where recipe books feature constantly in bestseller lists but where people spend more time watching celebrity chefs cooking on TV than doing any cooking ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580849 | ISBN 10: 1595580840
If we are what we eat, then we are not in good shape - as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful investigation of the food industry. Diet for a Dead Planet takes us beyond fast food and GMOs to show how our entire food system is in crisis. Co ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141020730 | ISBN 10: 0141020733
A tongue-in-cheek - and burger-in-hand - look at the legal, financial and physical costs of our hunger for fast food, by the funniest and most incisive new voice sinc Michael Moore. Can a man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried. For t ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007158041 | ISBN 10: 0007158041
Supermarkets - not so super after all? They currently have 80 percent of the UK grocery market. Have you ever wondered, pushing your trolley around the ever-wider aisles of these ever-expanding stores, if there's a price to pay for our enduring love ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141006871 | ISBN 10: 0141006870
Do you really know what you're eating when you tuck into that juicy burger? Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser's explo ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781856498654 | ISBN 10: 1856498654
Will free trade benefit transnational coporations or the millions who are currently malnourished? Will small farmers find new markets in the North? Or will they lose even their local markets to cheap, subsidized food from the North? Why should countr ... more
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£22.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853834936 | ISBN 10: 1853834939
In this completely revised and updated edition of their revealing and often startling book, three of the world's foremost experts on our food system expose and demolish the myths surrounding world hunger. Drawing on extensive research, they examine t ... more
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