Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization

The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as England becam

This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist

What's wrong with the US food system? Why is half the world starving while the other half battles obesity? Who decides our food issues, and why can't we do bett

"This collection of essays examines how food and its absence have been used both as a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental contr