Organic food, farming and culture : an introduction

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This textbook provides students with a comprehensive introduction to organic food and farming. Janet Chrzan, Jacqueline A Ricotta, and contributors explain organic food and organic farming principles; the history of organics; how organic food is grown, distributed, and consumes; the nutritional benefits; and the social and cultural meanings attached to the concept "organic". An engaging introduction to organic agriculture, this book is essentia...

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ISBN:

9781350027848
1350027847

Description:

xxi, 309 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Organic food, farming and culture: introduction / Janet Chrzan and Jacqueline A. Ricotta
Pt.1. Organic farming : A history. Profile : Alex Wenger, organic farmer ; The history of the "new" organics / Joseph Heckman and Mark Keating
Profile : Leigh Bush, food anthropologist ; Traditional intensive organic farming / E.N. Anderson
Profile : Chef Steven Eckerd ; Organics and the environmental movement / Kathleen Delate and Robert Turnbull
Pt. 2. Organics in practice. Profile : Alex Wenger, organic farmer ; The agronomics of organic farming / Jacqueline A. Ricotta
Profile : Alex Wenger, organic farmer ; The organic dairy industry : how markets, standards, and technology lead to changes on the farm and throughout the supply chain / Adam Diamond
Profile : Leigh Bush, food anthropologist ; Going organic : a critical analysis of the potential for organic farming in Ethiopia / Bernhard Freyer and Jim Bingen
Profile : Erika Tapp, concerned consumer ; Organic in the global north : a revival of organic ethics for a more sustainable food system / Milena Klimek, Valentin Fiala, Bernhard Freyer, and Jim Bingen
Profile : Erika Tapp, concerned consumer ; Consumers, citizens, and the participatory processes on organic food : two case studies from Denmark / Niels Heine Kristensen and Mette Weinreich Hansen
Pt. 3. Organic food values : sustainability and social movements. Profile : Leigh Bush, food anthropologist ; Farming for food or farming for profits? / Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem
Profile : Erika Tapp, concerned consumer ; Health consequences and perceptions of organic foods : A synthesis of the scientific evidence
Profile : Erika Tapp, concerned consumer ; Can organic farming feed the world? / Janet Chrzan
Profile : Leigh Bush, food anthropologist ; The transcendental meanings of organic food / Richard H. Robbins
Pt. 4. Organic food systems : choice and culture. Profile : Chef Steven Eckerd ; Institutionalizing organics : a practical consideration of challenges and opportunities for sustainable foods in noncommercial foodservice and foodservice education / Jonathan Deutsch and Budd Cohen
Profile : Alex Wenger, organic farmer ; Marketing organic food in the United States / Christina Callicott and Catherine M. Tucker
Profile : Chef Steven Eckerd ; Is there really a difference between conventional, organic, and GMO? / John T. Lang
Conclusion / E.N. Anderson, Jacqueline A. Ricotta, and Janet Chrzan

LCCN:

2018030755

Control Number:

2750933

Other Authors:

Chrzan, Janet, editor
Ricotta, Jacqueline, editor

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