Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: Food Studies: Food Security

Food Security - EBOOKS

More Than Just Food by Garrett Broad
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor HD9005 .B688 2016 3-wk loan
The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and "food deserts" for the historically marginalized.
The Unending Hunger - Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders
This book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States.

Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity by Janet Page-Reeves (Editor)
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women's agency.

A Blind Spot in Food and Nutrition Security: Where Culture and Social Change Shape the Local Food Plate
Agriculture and Human Values. Vol. 32, No. 2, (June, 2015),
Special Issue -From the journal Global Food Security
From Elsevier, recently published articles from the journal, Global Food Security.
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Strategic views of experts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on prospects for ensuring food security, based on the best available science, in a clear and readable form for a wide audience, bridging the gap between biological, social and environmental sciences.
Special Issue - From The Journal Food Security
The journal Food Security offers a mixture of original refereed papers taking a synthetic view of the science, sociology and economics of food production, agricultural development, access to food, and nutrition, together with review articles, case studies and letters to the editor.
Special Issue - From The Guardian
News, comment and features on food security, food insecurity and food scarcity in the developing world
Food Security, Market Processes, and the Role of Government Policy
Reference Module in Food Science
Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems

Food First
The mission of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, is to end the injustices that cause hunger.
Feeding America
The mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
World Food Program
"The world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. In emergencies, we get food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters." Includes statistics, hunger map.
Action Against Hunger
"A global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger."
FAO - The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology.
Global Food Security Index
The Global Food Security Index was designed and constructed by the Economist Intelligence Unit and is sponsored by DuPont.
The Food Security Portal
This open access policy information portal has been established to provide comprehensive and detailed information country-by-country on food policy developments