TY - BOOK AU - Atkins,P.J. AU - Bowler,Ian R. TI - Food in society: economy, culture, geography SN - 0340720034 AV - HD9000.5 .A85 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - Arnold KW - Food supply KW - Food N1 - Includes biliographical references and index; -- part 1. Hors d'oeuvre. A background to food studies; -- part 2. The political economy of food. Introduction; -- Food regimes as an organizing concept; -- Globalization and food networks; -- Transformation of the farm sector; -- Food processing and manufacturing; -- Food marketing and the consumer; -- part 3. Global and geopolitical food issues. Introduction; -- Food production and population; -- Malnutrition, hunger, and famine; -- Food surpluses; -- Food security; -- Food, world trade, and geopolitics; -- part 4. A political ecology of food. Introduction; -- Food quality; -- Food and health; -- From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution; -- Food ethics, food policies, and civil society; -- part 5. Food consumption spaces. Introduction; -- Factors in food consumption; -- The origins of taste; -- Food habits, beliefs, and taboos; -- Food, gender, and domestic spaces; -- part 6. Conclusion ER -