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Автор: Erik Millstone
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      Erik Millstone is a Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, UK. He has been working on food-related issues since the mid-1970s and is the author of Food Additives; Additives: A Guide for Everyone; Our Genetic Future; Lead and Public Health and BSE: Risk, Science and Governance, as well as numerous journal and magazine articles on the politics of food and health. He is currently working on a project concerned with reconciling improved food production for poor farmers in developing countries with poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, as part of the STEPs centre (steps-centre.org). Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University’s Centre for Food Policy in London. He studies how policy affects the shape of the food supply chain, what people eat, and the societal, health, and environmental outcomes. He is a Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and a regular consultant to governmental and non-governmental public bodies. In 2006–11, he was Land Use and Natural Resources Commissioner on the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Commission. He is co-author of Ecological Public Health (2012), Food Policy (2009), Food Wars (2004), and The Unmanageable Consumer (1996).

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      the atlas of FOOD Who Eats What, Where, and Why With an Updated Introduction Erik Millstone and Tim Lang Foreword by Marion Nestle

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      Contents

      Foreword by Marion Nestle 7 Contributors 8 Updated Introduction 9 Part 1 Contemporary Challenges 14 1 Current Concerns 16 2 Feeding the World 18 3 Unequal Distribution 20 4 Environmental Challenges 22 5 Water Pressure 24 6 Nutritional Deficiencies 26 7 Over-Nutrition 28 8 Contamination 30 Part 2 Farming 32 9 Mechanization 34 10 Industrial Livestock Production 36 11 Animal Feed 38 12 Animal Diseases 40 13 Agricultural R&D 42 14 Genetically Modified Crops 44 15 Pesticides 46 16 Fertilizers 48 17 Working the Land 50 18 Land Ownership 52 19 Urban Farming 54 20 Fishing and Aquaculture 56 21 Agricultural Biodiversity 58 22 Organic Farming 60 23 Greenhouse Gases 62 Part 3 Trade 64 24 Trade Flows 66 25 Live Animal Transport 68 26 Subsidized Trade 70 27 Trade Disputes 72 28 Trade Dependency 74 29 Fair Trade 76 Part 4 Processing, Retailing and Consumption 78 30 Staple Foods 80 31 Changing Diets 82 32 Processing Giants 84 33 Retail Power 86 34 Organic Food 88 35 Food Additives 90 36 Eating Out 92 37 Fast Food 94 38 Alcohol 96 39 Advertising and Marketing 98 40 Citizens Bite Back 100 Part 5 Data Tables 102 Agriculture 104 Consumption 112 Sources 120 Index 126

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