Food Fraud provides an overview of the current state on the topic to help readers understand which products are being impacted, how pervasive food fraud is, and what laws are in effect across the developed world. As international food trade increases, food processors, distributors, and consumers...

About the Book: This book has been designed as a reference for the teaching, learning and institutional feeding in all its varied aspects. It covers a wide range of topics from the development of food services, traditional and modern management approaches to the management of resources, food...

During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets...

List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes -- Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies -- The ambivalent capitalist socialisation of agriculture -- Regulation...

Providing a fascinating insight into the factors that influence individual choices regarding eating habits, diet and other behavioral patterns relevant to obesity, this book offers a new perspective about the relationship of obesity to poverty and inequality. The authors explore a unique...