Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century - (Anthropology of Food & Nutrition) (Paperback)

About the Book

• Unlike the other books in the market, this volume brings a multidisciplinary focus to bear on the topic. The volume emphasises the symbiosis between different subject areas, and demonstrates the value in analysing food sustainability from multiple perspectives.
• The disciplinary fulcrum of the book is anthropology, thereby filling a key gap in the market; there are surprisingly few recent volumes which look at food sustainability from an anthropological point of view. Several of the contributions use ethnographic methods, showing how microscale studies can illuminate macroscale issues.
• The book also includes contributions from practitioners working in the broad area of food sustainability, which provides an additional applied dimension to the collection.
• In all chapters, specialist jargon is deliberately avoided, allowing specialist knowledge from the different disciplinary perspectives to be available to all readers.

Book Synopsis

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives provides a global outlook on sustainability issues. These case studies will appeal to those working in public sector agencies, NGOs, consultancies and other bodies focused on food security, human nutrition and environmental sustainability.

Review Quotes

"[This book] provides a holistic understanding of food-related activities and behaviour ... both theoretical and empirical arguments are covered in a balanced manner. The volume takes cognisance of the 'minutiae of food experiences' (p. 19) of people with respect to sustainability, cutting across the globe." - European Association of Social Anthropologists Journal

"Contains a valuable and diverse set of essays that will help readers to understand the complexities of sustainable food and food systems and to advance cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons." - Ellen Messer, Food Anthropologist