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University of Toronto Mississauga
Department of Geography WINTER 2012
GGR 287H5S: Food and Globalization
Instructor: Pierre Desrochers
Lectures: Thursday 10-12 AM
Phone: (905) 828-5206
Office: Davis Building, room 3273
Lecture room: IB 245
E-mail: pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca
GGR 287H5S - Primary Syllabus and Mandatory
Readings
Substantial references
Godfray, H. Charles J. 2010. "Introduction:
The Future of the Global Food System ." Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) 365 (1554) (September):
2769-2777.
Kearney, John. 2010. "Food
Consumption Trends and Drivers ." Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) 365 (1554) (September):
2793-2807.
Johnson, D. Gale. 2000, "Population,
Food, and Knowledge ," American Economic Review 90, 2000, p.
1-14.
DeGregori, Thomas R. 2009. "The
Green Washing of the Green Ideological Agenda: In Defense of Modern
Agriculture, Technology and Life ."
Wimberley, Ronald C. et al. 2003.
Food from Our Changing World: The Globalization of Food and How
Americans Feel About It , North Carolina State University.
Shorter texts
Robert, Paul. 2009. "Spoiled:
Organic and Local is so 2008 ." Mother Jones (February)
Kotkin, Joel. 2010. "America's
Agricultural Angst ." Forbes (January 19)
Timmer, Peter C. "A World
without Agriculture? The Historical Paradox of Agricultural Development ."
AEI Outlook May 2009.
Cowen, Tyler. 2006. "Can You
Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table? - An economist's critique of
The Omnivore's Dilemma ." Slate.com, November 1st.
Cunningham, Brent. 2011. "Pastoral
Romance ." Lapham's Quarterly (Summer).
SUGGESTED LINKS
Eames-Sheavly, Marcia.
Discovering the Food System: An experiential learning program for young
and inquiring minds . Cornell University.
World Bank. 2007.
World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development ,
Policy Briefs.
- Growth
- Poverty Reduction
- Climate Change
- Gender
- The 'Three Worlds' of Agriculture Briefs
AUDIOS
"Farmers:
What do you think of Pollan's Ideas? " Talk of the Nation
(National Public Radio), Oct. 8, 2009.
VIDEOS
IFPRI -
Millions Fed, Proven Solutions
"Pollan and
Hurst Debate the Future of Agriculture " Market to Market
(Iowa Public Television), July 16, 2010.
The Meatrix
Gapminder.
Hans Rosling on 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
Mike Rowe
Works on Farming, Fishing, Food
Lectures 2-3: Historical
Perspective I-II
General
Philipps, Lynne. 2006. "Food
and Globalization ." Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 37-57.
von Braun, Joachim and Eugenio Dνaz-Bonilla. 2008. Globalization of
Food and Agriculture and the Poor . Oxford University Press and
International Food Policy Research Institute,
Chapter 1: Globalization of Agriculture and Food, Causes, Consequences,
and Policy Implications .
Insect Agriculture
Bernhard Stadler and Anthony F.G. Dixon. 2006. "Ecology
and Evolution of Aphid-Ant Interactions ." Annual Review of
Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 36: 345-372.
Cannibalism
Peter Foges. 2011. "What
Does It Taste Like? " Lapham's Quarterly (Summer).
Cooking and Early Agriculture
Mason, Daniel. 2011. "Balanced
Diets ." Lapham's Quarterly (Summer).
Pringle, Heather. 1998. "Reading
the Signs of Ancient Animal Domestication ." Science 282
(5393): 1448.
Smith, Bruce D. 2006. "Eastern
North America as an Independent Center of Plant Domestication ."
Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States
103 (33): 12223-12228.
Chapter 7:
Biodiversity and the Technology of Cooking: Uncultivated foods and the
technology of cooking /
Chapter 8:
Uncultivated Greens - the Nutritional Values /
Chapter 9.
Uncultivated foods and daily diets in Farhad Mazhar, Daniel
Buckles, P.V. Satheesh, and Farida Akhter.
Food
Sovereignty and Uncultivated Biodiversity in South Asia: Essays on the
Poverty of Food Policy and the Wealth of the Social Landscape .
Academic Foundation/IDRC International Development Research Centre,
2007.
Transition towards the Modern Era
Adams, Edward Francis and Louis Adelbert Clinton. 1899.
The Modern Farmer in his Business Relations: A Study of Some of the
Principles underlying the Art of Profitable Farming and Marketing, and
of the Interests of Farmers as Affected by Modern Social and Economic
Conditions and Forces . San Francisco: N.J. Stone Company, pp.
11-17.
Green Revolution (History)
- General
"Fueling the
Green Revolution ." U.S. Department of Agriculture & Agricultural
Research Service, October 10, 2003.
"Women and The
Green Revolution ." Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the
United States.
"Critique on the
Green Revolution " Livelihood 2005.
Borlaug, Norman, & Dowswell, Chris. 2004. "Responses
to Discussion Questions ." Cyberspace Discussion, January 5 - 9.
Borlaug, Norman E. 2002. "Feeding
a World of 10 Billion People: Our 21st Century Challenge ." Inaugural
lecture, Borlaug Lecture Series, Iowa State University, October 15.
Borlaug, Norman E. 1970. "The
Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity ." Nobel Lecture, December 11.
Conko, Greg. 2009. "The
Man Who Fed the World ." OpenMarket.org, September 13.
DeGregori, Thomas R. "Green
Myths against the Green Revolution ."
Hesser, Leon. 2006.
The Man Who Fed the World . Durban House Publishing.
Leonard, Andrew. 2009. "The
Paradox of Norman Borlaug ." Salon , Sept. 14.
Miller, Henry I. 2006. "History
and Culture: The Man Who Launched the Green Revolution ." Hoover
Digest , no 4.
Murray H. Milford and ECA Runge. 2008. "Beachell
and Borlaug: Two Giants of the American Society of Agronomy's First
Century ." Agronomy Journal 100 Supplement 3: S-1-S-3.
- Norman Borlaug
"Norman Borlaug "
Wikipedia
"Presidential
Medal of Freedom Recipient Norman Borlaug ." Medal of Freedom.com.
Rosset, Peter. 2000. "Lessons
from the Green Revolution ." Food First - Institute for Food and
Development Policy, March/April.
Sanchez, Pedro. 2004. "The
Next Green Revolution ." New York Times , October 6.
Shiva, Vandana. 1991. "The
Green Revolution in the Punjab ." The Ecologist , Vol. 21, No.
2, March-April.
Zeyen, Richard. "Yaqui
Valley Farmers Provide Eternal Resting Place for Their Friend and Our
Colleague, Norman Borlaug ."
Zeyen, Richard, Carol Ishimaru, Marty Dickman & Christine Richardson. "Norman
Borlaug: Plant Pathologist/Humanitarian ."
Recent Controversies
Potrykus, Ingo. 2005. "Missing
a Golden Rice opportunity ." The Economic Times , December 26.
Taverne, Dick. 2007. "The
Real GM Food Scandal ." Prospect Magazine , November.
SUGGESTED LINKS
General
Agropolis Museum
- Food and Agricultures of the World
The Food Timeline
Transition to Modern Era
Wessels Living
History Farm (York, Nebraska)
Green Revolution
A short video in
which Norman Borlaug explains his work and the future of agricultural
science .
The Norman Borlaug Heritage
Foundation
Navdayana (critics)
Lectures 4-5-8:
Commodities I-II-III
Plants
- Potato
McNeill, William H. 1999. "How
the Potato changed World History ." Social Research 66 (1):
67-83.
-Wheat
J. M. Prescott, P. A. Burnett, E. E. Saari, J. Ranson, J. Bowman, W. de
Milliano, R. P. Singh, G. Bekele.
Wheat
Diseases and Pests: A Guide for Field Identification . International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
Olmstead, Alan L., & Paul W. Rhode, "Biological
Globalization: The Other Grain Invasion ," in Timothy J. Hatton,
Kevin O'Rourke, & Alan M. Taylor, (eds.), The New Comparative
Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 115-140.
University of NebraskaLincoln. 2010.
Wheat Disease
Management .
Lupton, F. "Advances
in work on breeding wheat with improved grain quality in the twentieth
century ." The Journal of Agricultural Science (2005), 143:
113-116.
-Corn
Claudia Reinhardt and Bill Ganzel. 2003. "The
Science of Hybrids ." Living History Farm (York, Nebraska).
-Grasslands
Hopkins, A., and R. J. Wilkins. "Temperate
grassland: key developments in the last century and future perspectives ."
The Journal of Agricultural Science (2006), 144: 503-523.
- Soybeans
Gibson, Lance, and Garren Benson. 2005. "Origin,
History, and Uses of Soybean (Glycine max) ." Iowa State
University, Department of Agronomy.
"How
Soybeans are Used ." North Carolina Soybean Producers Association,
Inc.
"Trends
in U.S. Agriculture - Oats and Soybeans ." National Agricultural
Statistics Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
Animals
- Domesticated Land Animals
Randal R. Rucker and Walter N. Thurman. 2012.
Colony Collapse
Disorder: The Market Response to Bee Disease . PERC Policy Series:
PS-50.
Smil, Vaclav. 2002. "Eating
Meat: Evolution, Patterns and Consequences ," Population and
Development Review 28 (4): 599-639.
UN FAO 2010.
The State of
Food and Agriculture 2009: Livestock in the Balance .
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. 2008.
Final Report:
Putting Meat on The Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America .
Critchell, James and Raymond Joseph Troubridge. 1912.
A History of the Frozen Meat Trade: An account of the development and
present day methods of preparation, transport, and marketing of frozen
and chilled meats . London: Constable & Company Ltd., pp. 1-17.
- Fisheries, Seafood and Aquaculture
- Fisheries
* Overview
UN FAO. 2004.
The State of
the World Fisheries
Welcomme, Robin L. et al. 2010. "Inland
Capture Fisheries " Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society B (Biological Sciences) 365 (1554) (September): 2881-2896.
* Problems and solutions
OECD. 2010.
While Stocks Last?
Burnett, H. Sterling. Ph.D. 2007. "Ocean
Fisheries: Common Heritage or Tragic Commons? " Brief Analysis
No. 581, National Center for Policy Analysis, February 27.
Ellis, Richard. 2008. "The
Bluefin Tuna in Peril ." Scientific American , June 24.
Garcia, Serge M. and Andrew Rosenberg. 2010. "Food
Security and Marine Capture Fisheries: Characteristics, Trends, Drivers
and Future Perspectives " Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society B (Biological Sciences) 365 (1554) (September): 2869-2880.
Gissurarson, Hannes. 2000.
Overfishing: the Icelandic Solution . London: Institute of Economic
Affairs.
Hannesson, Rφgnvaldur. "The
Privatization of the Oceans ." The Independent Review , Vol. 11
No 3, Winter 2007.
Leal, Donald R. 2002. "Fencing
the Fishery - A Primer on Ending The Race for Fish ." Property and
Environment Research Center (PERC).
Marra, John. 2005. "When
will we tame the oceans? " Nature 436: 175-176, 14 July.
- Aquaculture
* Historical Perspective
Geoffrey Kron. 2005. "Possible
Evidence for the Aquaculture of Tilapia in GrecoRoman Antiquity ."
Revue d'histoire comparιe de l'environnement .
Herminio R. Rabanal. 1988. "History
of Aquaculture ." FAO.
Whit Richardson. 2011. "The
Mastery of Fish ." Lapham's Quarterly (Summer).
* Overview and controversies
AIMS & CAI. 2006.
Aquaculture: The Blue Revolution . Autumn 2006.
Halweil, Brian. 2008. "Farming
Fish for the Future ." WorldWatch Report 176.
FAO - IIRR - World Fish Center. 2001.
Integrated
agriculture-aquaculture - A primer . FAO Fisheries Technical Paper
#407.
Alder, Jacqueline, Brooke Campbell, Vasiliki Karpouzi, Kristin Kaschner,
and Daniel Pauly. 2008. "Forage
Fish: From Ecosystems to Markets ." Annual Review of Environment
and Resources 33: 153-166.
Naylor, Rosamond & Marshall Burke. 2005. "Aquaculture
and Ocean Resources: Raising Tigers of the Sea ." Annual Review of
Environment and Resources 30: 185-218.
Rosamond L. Naylor et al. 2009. "Feeding
Aquaculture in an Era of Finite Resources ." Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 106 (36): 15103?15110.
SUGGESTED LINKS
Plants
- General
USDA. National Agricultural Library Plants and Crops
- Potato
International Year of
the Potato
International Potato Center (CGIAR
center)
The Potato Museum
- Corn
Dolan DNA Learning Center (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
-
Explosives Origins of Corn
-
Maize (Corn) Genome Completed
Animals
- Land Animals
USDA. National Agricultural Library Animals and Livestock
Pew Commission on Industrial Animal Farm
Production
- Fisheries, Seafood and Aquaculture
USDA. National Agricultural Library. Aquaculture
GreenFacts.org on Fisheries
The OECD on fisheries
UN FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture
Department
The U.S. Commission on Ocean
Policy
Videos
Sushi and the End of the Southern Bluefish Tuna (2009)
Global Sushi:
Soft Powers and Hard Realities
Lecture 9: Agricultural
Inputs, Technologies and Food Additives
Fertilizers
Brunt, Liam. 2007. "Where
There's Muck, There's Brass: The Market for Manure in the Industrial
Revolution ." The Economic History Review , Vol. 60 No. 2, pp.
333-372.
Frink, Charles R., Paul E. Waggoner, & Jesse H. Ausubel. "Nitrogen
fertilizer: Retrospect and prospect ." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Vol. 96, Issue 4, pp. 1175-1180, February 16, 1999.
Martinez, Ibsen. 2008. "Reflections from Latin America - Guano ."
Library
of Economics and Liberty , August 4.
Smil, V. 2005. "Nitrogen
in modern European agriculture ." In: Scholliers, P., L. Van Molle
and C. Sarasua, eds. Land, Shops and Kitchens: Technology and the
Food Chain in Twentieth-Century Europe . Turnhout: Brepols Publishers,
pp. 110-119.
Pests
Avery, Alex A. 2006.
Organic
Pesticide Use: What we Know and don't Know about Use, Toxicity, and
Environmental Impacts . Crop Protection Products for Organic
Agriculture. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society. pp. 58-77.
Bahlai, Christine A, Yingen Xue1, Cara M. McCreary, Arthur W. Schaafsma
and Rebecca H. Hallett. 2010. "Choosing
Organic Pesticides over Synthetic Pesticides May Not Effectively
Mitigate Environmental Risk in Soybeans ." Plos One 5 (6).
David Moore, Geoffrey D. Robson and Anthony P. J. Trinci. 2010.
21st Century Guidebook to Fungi .
E.-C. Oerke. 2006. "Centenary
Review: Crop Losses to Pests ." Journal of Agricultural Science
144: 31-43.
Entine, Jon. 2011.
Scared to Death. How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. A Position
Statement of The American Council on Science and Health . American
Council on Science and Health.
Insects and Other Arthropods , ARS Image Gallery.
National Research Council (Committee on Comparative Toxicity of
Naturally Occurring Carcinogens). 1996.
Carcinogens and
Anticarcinogens in the Human Diet. A Comparison of Naturally Occurring
and Synthetic Substances . National Academy Press
P. E. Russell. 2005. "Centenary
Review: A Century of Fungicide Evolution ." Journal of
Agricultural Science 145 (1): 11-25.
Animal Diseases
"Laying
a global cattle killer to rest " BBC News, 20 May 2011.
"World
declared "free" from deadly cattle disease " United Nations Radio, 28
June 2011.
"Global
Rinderpest Eradication Programme " FAO.
"Disease Facts -
Rinderpest " Institute for Animal Health.
Seeds
Boudreaux, Karol. 2006. "Seeds of Hope: Agricultural Technologies and
Poverty Alleviation in Rural South Africa ." Policy Comment No. 6,
EnterpriseAfrica!, September 8.
Canadian Seed Trade Association. 1995.
The Merchants of Seeds: A History of the Canadian Seed Industry .
A brief history of the UK
seed producer Suttons
A brief history of
the Gallatin Valley Seed Company
Tripp, Robert. 2002.
Seed Provision & Agricultural Development: The Institutions of Rural
Change . Overseas Development Institute.
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 2004.
Report of the Seed Sector Advisory Committee .
Water
Salzman, James. 2006. "Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water ." Duke
Law School Faculty Scholarship Paper Series. Paper 31.
SUGGESTED LINKS
Animal Reproductive Technologies
USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Animal Reproduction
Seeds
Smithsonian Institutions Library on The American Seed and Nursery
Industry
Pest Management
USDA National
Institute of Food and Agriculture. Pest Management
American Phytopathological Society "Common
Names of Plant Diseases "
CBC News In
Depth - The Pesticide Debate
Lecture 10: Policy
Controversies I: Environment, Biotechnologies and Organic Production
Environment (General)
Avery, Dennis T. 2003. "Sustaining
Both Planet and People: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century ,"
University of Maryland's First Annual Conference on Hunger, October 14.
Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty. 2009. "Anthropogenic
biomes ." Encyclopedia of Earth .
McNeill, J.R. and Verena Winiwarter. 2004. "Breaking
the Sod: Humankind, History, and Soil ." Science 304 (5677)
(June 11): 1627-1629.
Thomas E. Dahl and Gregory J. Allord. 1997. "History
of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States ." United States
Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2425.
Biodiversity and monocultures
Angelson, A. and D. Kaimowitz (edited by). 2001.
Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation . CABI
Publishing in association with Center for International Forestry
Research.
Biotechnologies
Cayford, Jerry. 2003. "Breeding
Sanity into the GM Food Debate " Issues in Science and Technology ,
Winter.
Prakash, C. S. and Gregory Conko. 2004. "Technology
for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation ." The
American Enterprise (March): 16-20.
Haruko Okusu. 2009. "Biotechnology
Research in the CGIAR: An Overview ." AgBioForum 12 (1).
Herdt, Robert W. 2006. "Biotechnology
in Agriculture ." Annual Review of Environment and Resources
31: 265-295 (November).
McWilliams, James E. 2009. "Could
Frankenfoods be Good for the Environment? " Slate , January 28.
Susman, Megan M. 2000. "Biotechnology
in Food and Agriculture - Facts and Fears ." Progressive Policy
Institute, May 1.
Trewavas, Anthony. "A
Critical Assessment of Organic Farming-and-Food Assertions With
Particular Respect to the UK and the Potential Environmental Benefits of
No-Till Agriculture ." Crop Protection 23 (2004) 757-781.
Andrew, Toby. 2002. "Lost
in the Maize ." Spiked Online .
Organic
About.com - An Overview of Some Common Organic Pesticides
Alan D. Dangour, Sakhi K. Dodhia, Arabella Hayter, Elizabeth Allen,
Karen Lock and Ricardo Uauy. 2009. "Nutrional
Quality of Organic Foods: A Systematic Review ." American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition 93 (6): 680-685.
Center for Consumer Freedom
- "Eco-Unfriendly
Organic? " June 17, 2010
- "Spraying
Context on Organic Pesticides Claims ," May 27, 2010
- "Organic's
Nutritional Superiority (Still) Nonexistent ," May 27, 2010
Brian Dunning. 2007. "Organic
Food Myths ." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, Inc., (January 5).
Byrne, Jay, Gregory Conko, Jon Entine, Tony Gilland, Thomas Jefferson
Hoban, Patrick Moore, Andrew S. Natsios, Martina Newell-McGloughlin,
Robert L. Paarlberg, C.S. Prakash, & Carol Tucker Foreman.
Let Them Eat Precaution. How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic
Revolution in Agriculture , Edited by Jon Entine. AEI Press
(Washington) January 2006.
Report from the Bichel Committee (Danish Government). 2001. Organic
Scenarios for Denmark.
Winter, Carl K. and Sarah F. Davis. 2006. "Organic
Foods ." Journal of Food Science 71 (9): R117-R124.
Meat Production and the Environment
Nierenberg, Danielle. 2005. "Happier
Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry ." Worldwatch Paper
#171 (September).
UN FAO. 2006.
Livestock
Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options .
SUGGESTED LINKS
Environment (General)
Anthromes: The Global Ecological
Patterns Created by Humans
European
Commission (European Union). Agriculture and Rural Development -
Agriculture and the Environment
Meat Production and the Environment
Mitloehner, Frank. 2009.
Clearing the Air: Livestock's Contribution to Climate Change
(Power Point Presentation)
Pitesky, Maurice E., Kimberly R. Stackhouse and Frank F. Mitloehner.
2009. "Clearing
the Air: Livestock's Contribution to Climate Change ." Advances in
Agronomy 103: 1-40.
Toronto Vegetarian Association. 2007.
Meat's Production
Environmental Toll .
Biotechnologies
The Pew Initiative on Food and
Biotechnology
A
debate on the future of GM technologies , Spiked-Science Debates.
"Frankenfood " Frenzy on
ReasonOnline . A pro-technology Website, but with several links to
GM opponents.
"Harvest of Fear ," a 2001
Nova (PBS) documentary.
WHO (World Health Organization) on
- Biotechnology (GM
Foods) and Nanotechnology
Organic Production
International Federation of Organic
Agriculture Movements
International Organic Inspectors
Association
Organic Materials Review Institute
OMAFRA. Organic Agriculture (in Ontario)
Public Works and Government Services Canada. Organic Agriculture
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Organic Production
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Organic Products
Canadian Consumer Information Gateway - Organic Food
The Soil Association (UK)
Intelligence2 USA (February 2010):
Is Organic Food Marketing Hype?
Lecture 11: Policy
Controversies II: Food Safety and Security, Subsidies and Barriers to
Trade
Food Safety
Encyclopedia Britannica. 1911.
Food Adulteration .
Marc T. Law. 2010. "History
of Food and Drug Regulation in the United States ." In Robert Whaples
(ed.) EH.Net Encyclopedia.
EPA et al. 1999. "Achievements
in Public Health, 1900-1999: Safer and Healthier Foods ." Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Reports (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
48 (40): 905-913.
FAO. 1995.
Codex Alimentarius: How it All Began . FAO.
Richard Williams, Robert L. Scharff, and David Bieler. 2010. "Food
Safety in the 21st Century ." Mercatus on Policy no. 71
(February).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Estimates
of Foodborne Illness In the United States: 2011 Estimate Findings ."
Elaine Scallan, Robert M. Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo, Robert V. Tauxe,
Marc-Alain Widdowson, Sharon L. Roy, Jeffery L. Jones, and Patricia M.
Griffin. 2011. "Foodborne
Illness Acquired in the United States-Major Pathogens ." Emerging
Infectious Diseases 17 (1).
Elaine Scallan, Patricia M. Griffin, Frederick J. Angulo, Robert V.
Tauxe, and Robert M. Hoekstra. 2011. "Foodborne
Illness Acquired in the United States-Unspecified Agents ."
Emerging Infectious Diseases 17 (1).
Hunger and Food Security
- Overview
FAO. 2009.
The State of
Food Insecurity - Economic Crises: Impacts and Lessons Learned .
Murton, Brian. 2000. "Famine" in Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneθ
Ornelas (eds)
Cambridge
World History of Food . Cambrige: Cambridge University Press, VI.
4, 1411-1427.
Currey, Bruce and Graeme Hugo. (ed) 1984.
Famine as a Geographical Phenomenon . Dordrecht: Kluwer.
- Ancient History
Garnsey, Peter. 1999.
Food and
Society in Classical Antiquity . Cambridge University Press.
Garnsey, Peter. 1988.
Famine
and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis .
Cambridge University Press.
Stathakopoulos, Dionysios Ch. 2004.
Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A
Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics . London:
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Recent History
Baro, Mamadou, and Tara F. Deubel. 2006. "Persistent
Hunger: Perspectives on Vulnerability, Famine, and Food Security in
Sub-Saharan Africa ." Annual Review of Anthropology 35:
521-538 (October).
Christiaensen, Luc. 2009. "Revisiting
the Global Food Architecture: Lessons from the 2008 Food Crisis ."
UNU WIDER Discussion Paper.
Shaw, D. J. 2007.
World Food Security since 1945 . (Book launch, Overseas
Development Institute).
- Current Controversies
FAO. 2004.
Globalization of Food Systems in Developing Countries: Impact on Food
Security and Nutrition , FAO Food and Nutrition Paper 83
Charlotte Hebebrand and Kristin Wedding. 2010.
The Role of Markets and Trade in Food Security . Center for
Strategic and International Studies.
Gerald Nelson, Amanda Palazzo, Claudia Ringler, Timothy Sulser and
Miroslav Batka. 2009.
The Role of International Trade in Climate Change Adaptation .
Issue Brief #4. ICTSD (International Center for Trade and Sustainable
Development) and IF&ATPC (International Food and Agricultural Policy
Trade Council).
Dalziel, G. R. 2009. "Food
Defence Incidents 1950-2008: A Chronology and Analysis of Incidents
Involving the Malicious Contamination of the Food Supply Chain ."
Nanyang Technological University.
Tierney, John. 2008. "Greens
and Hunger ." The New York Times , May 19.
Garrett, Laurie. 2008. "Food
Failures and Futures ." Center for Geoeconomic Studies (Council on
Foreign Relations) Working Paper, May 15.
Bradsher, Keith, & Andrew Martin. 2008. "World's
Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut ." The New York Times ,
May 25.
Irvine, Ian. 2008.
Viewpoint on the World Food Crisis , Economic Note, Montreal
Economic Institute, May.
Paul Teng PHD, "Food
(In)Security in Uban Population ." Asia Security Initiative Policy
Series, Working Paper no. 5, August 2010.
Gerald Nelson, Amanda Palazzo, Claudia Ringler, Timothy Sulser and
Miroslav Batka. 2009.
The Role of International Trade in Climate Change Adaptation . Issue
Brief #4. ICTSD and IF&ATPC.
Subsidies and Barriers to Trade
Griswold, Dan. 2006. "Grain
Drain: The Hidden Cost of U.S. Rice Subsidies ." Trade Briefing
Paper No. 25, Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies,
November 16.
SUGGESTED LINKS
Food Safety
WHO on Food Safety
FAO on Food Safety and Quality
CDC on Food Related
Diseases
USDA. Food Safety Research Office
Second Annual Sheela Basrur Symposium - "Foods,
Fads, Facts and Fictions
How Safe is our Food? " (May 25, 2010).
Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on:
-
food safety
-
food safety and traceability
US EPA. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
Food Security
Global Food Security - Bibliography and links
Special issue of Science Magazine on food security (February
11, 2010).
Special issue of Issues in
Science and Technology on food security (Summer 2009).
Special issue "Hunger
and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption
Patterns on Society ," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14
(2), Autumn 1983.
Special Issue (open access) on "Food
Security: Feeding the World in 2050 ." Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) 365 (1554), September 27,
2010.
"Malnutrition
and Hunger ." Copenhagen Consensus 2004 (very good survey
papers and critiques).
The Earth
Institute (Columbia University) on Food Security
The Ripple that Drowns:
Twentieth Century Famines as Economic History . The Tawney
Memorial Lecture 2007, Cormac O' Grada.
FAO. 2009. World
Summit on Food Security
-
Issues Briefs
- List of
documents
Subsidies and Barriers to Trade
Kick all agricultural subsidies
(kickAAS)
Food Sovereignty
La Via Campesina on
food sovereignty
Pimbert, Michel. 2009. "Towards
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