Spring Reading Challenge
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Food Security


Food Security Books

Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Food Security and Global Environmental Change
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty (Praeger Security International)
Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Volume 3) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Food Security (Global Issues (Facts on File))
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food―and Our Future
The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (California Studies in Food and Culture)
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
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Space Vault by Jeremy CliftThe Crimson Rust by C. Bernard RutleyDreamboats for Trudy by Mildred Lawrence
Agroterrorism in Fiction
3 books — 2 voters
Never Home Alone by Rob DunnWeeds by Alexander C. MartinA Weed by Any Other Name by Nancy GiftThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThis Is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe
Weeds, pests, invasives, and diseases
133 books — 6 voters

The Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanSaving Wild by Lori RobinsonThe Treeline by Ben RawlenceGuardians of the Trees by Kinari WebbRough Waters by Nancy Danielson Mendenhall
Conservation and Development
47 books — 21 voters
Pest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanStuffed and Starved by Raj PatelPests of the Garden and Small Farm by Mary Louise FlintNatural Enemies Handbook by Mary Louise Flint
World Food
68 books — 20 voters

Quotes Tagged “Food Security”

Mike Smart
“ The future of food isn't in distant fields or corporate warehouses—it's in every home, every garden, and every community that takes control of its own food security. ...more ”
― Mike Smart
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Masanobu Fukuoka
“ If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown cl ...more ”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
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Videos Tagged “Food Security”

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Groups Tagged "Food Security"

Off-Grid & Thriving: The Self-Sufficient Living Community Welcome to Off-Grid & Thriving—a community for anyone passionate about self-sufficiency, energy …more
1 member, last active 7 months ago
The Food Lab artist: Marisol Ortega /// A popup group for the Summer of 2021. We're no longer active, but y…more
22 members, last active 4 years ago
August 24 and 25, 2013
1 member, last active 12 years ago
Soil Therapy_Neighbors Developing Divisadero Exploring the connection between community-based agriculture, neighborhood revitalization, soil …more
2 members, last active 12 years ago