see also

World Food Clock [including food waste] -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Food Irradiation
Food Deserts
Food Sovereignty
Food Safety
Food and Climate Change
Food and COVID-19
The Future of Food
Food Politics
World Hunger
Climate Change
Water Resources
World Food Summit
World Summit on Food Security
Entomophagy

Epidemics, Plagues, and the Like

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• Haiti’s gang wars having ‘cataclysmic’ impact on access to food staples -- The Guardian (28 November 2023)
  
  
• Ireland's Yellowmeal Griddle Bread -- BBCtravel (09 September 2023)
  
  
• Five countries, five meals - tackling a food crisis -- BBCNews (17 August 2022)
  
  
• Can eating fish ever be sustainable? -- BBCNews (10 August 2022)
  
  
• More Americans Are Going Hungry, and It Costs More to Feed Them -- The New York Times (04 August 2022)
  
  
• ‘It’s pretty devastating’: Turkey farmer hopes worst is over after avian flu loss -- MPRNews (03 June 2022)
  
  
• Stead, Victoria, and Melinda Hinkson, Eds. 2022. Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration. Springer. [Open Access] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0
  
  
• UM Food Security Dashboard (20 January 2022)
  
  
• ‘I Know What the End of the World Looks Like’ -- The New York Times (09 January 2022)
  
  
• A seed for all seasons: can ancient methods future-proof food security in the Andes? -- The Guardian (25 December 2021)
  
  
• ‘Hunger was something we read about’: lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food -- The Guardian (08 September 2021)
  
  
• Carter, Christopher. The Spirit of Soul Food:Race, Faith, and Food Justice. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
  
  
• Settee, Priscilla, and Shailesh Shukla (Eds.). Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 2020.
  
  
• Securing the Global Food System -- BBCReel (14 September 2021)
  
  
• The fight to improve food security -- BBCReel (08 September 2021)
  
  
• The forgotten foods that can revolutionise your diet -- BBCReel (04 February 2021)
  
  
• No power, no water, no hope: inside Europe’s largest shanty town -- The Guardian (15 January 2021)
  
  
• How dependent is the UK on the EU for food? -- BBCNews (23 December 2020)
  
  
• Pandemic Leaves More Military Families Seeking Food Assistance -- The New York Times (16 December 2020)
  
  
• Food Insecurity In The U.S. By The Numbers -- NPR (27 September 2020)
  
  
• China's Looming Corn Shortage Fans Food Security Unease -- AgWeb (02 September 2020)
  
  
• Plagues of field mice decimating crops, say German farmers -- The Guardian (13 August 2020)
  
  
• Revealed: millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade -- The Guardian (23 June 2020)
  
  
• West Africa facing food crisis as coronavirus spreads -- The Guardian (15 May 2020)
  
  
• Qatar's migrant workers beg for food as Covid-19 infections rise -- The Guardian (07 May 2020)
  
  
• Op-ed: Growing an Appreciation for the Hands That Feed Us -- Civil Eats (06 May 2020)
  
  
• ‘No food, water, masks or gloves': migrant farm workers in Spain at crisis point -- The Guardian (01 May 2020)
  
  
• Schools Transform Into ‘Relief’ Kitchens, but Federal Aid Fails to Keep Up -- The New York Times (19 April 2020)
  
  
• The Food Chain’s Weakest Link: Slaughterhouses -- The New York Times (18 April 2020)
  
  
• How Native Americans Are Fighting a Food Crisis -- The New York Times (13 April 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns -- The Guardian (26 March 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus food rationing in the UK is inevitable -- The Telegraph (25 March 2020)
  
  
• ‘We are in serious trouble’: The other crisis – our food supply -- The Guardian (22 March 2020)
  
  
• Poor water infrastructure is greater risk than coronavirus, says UN -- The Guardian (21 March 2020)
  
  
• Detroit suspends water shutoffs over Covid-19 fears -- The Guardian (12 March 2020)
  
  
• Somalia declares emergency over locust swarms -- BBCNews (02 February 2020)
  
  
• China's Latest Virus Outbreak Exposes Perils of Exotic Wildlife Trade -- Reuters (23 January 2020)
  
  
• Locusts: UN calls for international help in East Africa food security -- BBCnews (24 January 2020)
  
  
• Turkey’s ancient tradition of ‘paying it forward’ -- BBCNews (26 November 2019)
  
  
• Poorest countries facing both obesity and malnutrition -- BBCNews (16 December 2019)
  
  
• Minnesota farmers serve up the most turkeys in the U.S. -- MPRNews (27 November 2019)
  
  
• BBC News: North Korea 'facing poor harvest' amid food shortages -- BBCtravel (09 November 2019)
  
  
• No-deal Brexit: quarter of UK voters now stockpiling or delaying big purchases -- The Guardian (24 August 2019)
  
  
• Why Nigeria has restricted food imports -- BBCnews (17 August 2019)
  
  
• Eating and drinking in Africa's largest slum – in pictures – The Guardian (10 August 2019)
  
  
• In North Korea, Worst Drought in Decades Adds to Food Crisis -- The New York Times (15 May 2019)
  
  
• How the vegan food trend made a star of the stinking jackfruit -- The Guardian (16 February 2019)
  
  
• At Native American food tasting, indigenous community reclaim who they are -- MPRNews (09 October 2018)
  
  
• Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military Calls It Food Security -- The New York Times (04 October 2018)
  
  
• Paradise lost? What happened to Ireland's model eco-village -- The Guardian (10 August 2018)
  
  
• White Earth hopes food truck puts reservation on road to better health -- MPRNews (27 July 2018)
  
  
• Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America's groceries -- The Guardian (15 May 2018)
  
  
• Go vegan, save the world? Study highlights benefits of eating more plants -- MPR, TheSalt (04 April 2018)
  
  
• To close America's diet gap, we must recognize food as a human right -- The Guardian (21 July 2018)
  
  
• EC Global Report: Food insecurity the grim reality for 124m trapped in conflict zones -- FOODnavigator (23 March 2018)
  
  
• North Korean 'ghost ships' reveal desperation for food and funds -- The Guardian (06 December 2017)
  
  
• North Korea drought: Children at risk in 'worst crisis since 2001' -- BBCNews (20 July 2017)
  
  
• World food security risks growing, Chatham House says -- BBCNews (27 June 2017)
  
  
• One community garden at a time: how New Yorkers are fighting for food justice -- The Guardian (12 June 2017)
  
  
• Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans live in 'food deserts' -- StarTribune (06 May 2017)
  
  
• China Moves a Step Forward in Its Quest for Food Security -- The New York Times (05 April 2017)
  
  
• Why are there still famines? -- BBCNews (15 March 2017)
  
  
• South Sudan declares famine in Unity State -- BBCNews (20 February 2017)
  
  
• Millions in South Sudan in Urgent Need of Food, U.N. Warns -- The New York Times (20 February 2017)
  
  
• Yemen: Food crisis could become famine this year, UN warns -- BBCNews (27 January 2017)
  
  
• Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine started in South America -- LiveScience (03 January 2017)
  
  
• Brooklyn’s Food Gap -- The New York Times (09 September 2016)
  
  
• Mugabe's Zanu-PF 'blocking food aid' amid Zimbabwe drought -- BBCNews (08 September 2016)
  
  
• Livestock Insurance Helps African Herders Survive Droughts -- Science (02 September 2016)
  
  
• Teeth of Irish Famine Victims Reveal Scientific Markers for Starvation -- Guardian (10 August 2016)
  
  
• What hunter-gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks -- ScienceDaily (21 July 2016)
  
  
• Obama’s development legacy rings hollow on farmers’ rights -- The Guardian (11 July 2016)
  
  
• A Nonprofit Grocer Tries To Sell More Healthful Food Without Going Under -- NPR, The Salt: What's on Your Plate (06 July 2016)
  
  
• Venezuela makes arrests at the end of a dark week as food riots turn bloody -- The Telegraph (18 June 2016)
  
  
• Venezuela announces new plan to tackle food crisis -- BBC News (09 June 2016)
  
  
• SfAA Report: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Food Insecurity -- Society for Food and Nutrition: Food Anthropology (08 April 2016)
  
  
• Go wild to protect food security, says study -- BBC News (21 March 2016)
  
  
• Climate Deadline Looms for African Food Crops -- BBC News (07 March 2016)
  
  
• Moving the farmers market in Flint, Mich. drew more poor shoppers -- MPRNews (19 February 2016)
  
  
• Report: More pollinators species in jeopardy, threatening world food supply -- MPRNews (28 February 2016
  
  
• Volcano-induced ‘Little Ice Age’ May Have Contributed to Famines, Wars in 6th and 7th Centuries -- Science (08 February 2016)
  
  
• Agricultural Policies in Africa Could Be Harming the Poorest -- EurekAlert (07 February 2016)
  
  
• Researchers Link Climate-Induced Disasters and Food Security Across Time and Place -- EurekAlert (28 December 2015)
  
  
• Alaska's Inuit Link Steady Food Supply to Environment Health -- ABC News (27 December 2015)
  
  
• More women researchers needed 'to deliver food security' -- BBC News (17 October 2015)
  
  
• Africa's Farmers 'Need Urgent Climate-Proof Investment' -- BBC News (25 September 2015)
  
  
• The amazing significance of what a mother-to-be eats -- BBCNews (14 September 2015)
  
  
• Global warming increases 'food shocks' threat -- BBCNews (14 August 2015)
  
  
• Food shortage leaving Iraqi farmers in desperate situation -- BBCNews (27 July 2015)
  
  
• Russia: Free sheep for large families in Siberia -- BBCNews (03 July 2015)
  
  
• DNA Carries Traces of Past Events Meaning Poor Lifestyle Can Affect Future Generations -- Telegraph (04 June 2015)
  
  
• Ancient DNA sheds light on how past environments affected ancient populations -- ScienceDaily (28 May 2015)
  
  
• El Nino could 'disrupt food markets' -- BBCNews (20 May 2015)
  
  
• 'Supergoats' help Kenyan farmers adapt to climate change -- MPRNews (29 March 2015)
  
  
• The People Pushed Out of Ethiopia's Fertile Farmland -- BBC News (05 January 2015)
  
  
• Floods and Famines May Have Helped Spark Belief in Gods, Study Suggests -- Guardian (10 November 2014)
  • The gods of harsh things -- Guardian (11 November 2014)
    
    
• Bill Gates's Epic Project Transforms Farming in Africa -- New Scientist (04 September 2014)
  
  
• Green Revolution Meeting Considers Africa's Food Future -- BBC News (01 September 2014)
  
  
• Africa's farmers face 'failed seasons' risks -- BBC News (02 September 2014)
  
  
• Ancient clam gardens nurture food security -- Science Daily (20 March 2014)
  
  
• Ancient Clam Gardens Increased Shellfish Production: Adaptive Strategies from the Past Can Inform Food Security Today -- PLoS ONE (11 March 2014)
  
  
• Archaeologists lend long-term perspective to food security and climate shock -- ScienceDaily (16 February 2014)
  
  
• Famine, Not Calcium Absorption, May Have Driven Evolution of Milk Tolerance in Europeans -- Science Daily (22 November 2014)
  
  
• What 11 Billion People Mean for Food Security -- LiveScience (19 November 2013)
  
  
• Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies -- The New York Times (01 November 2013)
  
  
• As Cost of Importing Food Soars, Jamaica Turns to the Earth -- The New York Times (03 August 2013)
  
  
• Ethiopia’s Lasting Legacy of Famine -- Telegraph (27 May 2013)
  
  
• Educating Women May Improve Food Security in Africa -- EurekAlert (13 May 2013)
  • Link to Simon Wagura Ndiritu's thesis Essays on gender issues, Food Security, and Technology Adoption in East Africa: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/32605
    
    
• Dutch government to probe export of milk formula to China -- BBC News (8 May 2013)
  
  
• China media: Fake food scandals -- -- BBC News (6 May 2013)
  
  
• Climate Change Report Outlines Perils for U.S. Military -- John M. Broder, New York Times (9 November 2012)
  
  
• Busted: Food Myths Brought to You By Corporate Front Groups -- Michele Simon, Food Safety News (24 October 2012)
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Trees 'Boost African Crop Yields and Food Security' -- BBCNews (15 October 2011)
  
  
• 'Africa Can Feed the World' -- Guardian (27 July 2011)
  
  
• Palestinian Desire for Food Security Drives Farming Innovation -- Guardian (17 June 2011)
  
  
• Bolivia law aims at food security -- BBCNews (27 June 2011)
  
  
• African Farmers Can Help to Transform the Continent -- Guardian (04 May 2011)

• Agricultural and food security trends worldwide: An overview -- Economic and Social Development Department, FAO
  
  
• Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon. Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013.
  
  
• Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in assuring Food Security: Summary Report -- FAO, Technical Consultation Meeting, Rome, Italy, 23-25 January 2012.
  
  
• Bellows, Anne C., Flavio L.S. Valente, Stephanie Lemke, María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara, (Eds.). Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food. NY: Routledge, 2015.
  
  
• Bernstein, Henry. Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010.
  
  
• Biosecurity at the National Academies
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Revised Edition . NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  
  
  • Food Irradiation
    
    
  • Food-Related Diseases
    
    
  • Food Safety
    
    
  • FoodNet -- Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network
    
    
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
  
  
• Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods -- Iowa State University
  
  
• Coates, Jennifer. "Build it back better: deconstructing food security for improved measurement and action." Global Food Security 2, no. 3 (2013): 188-194.
  
  
• Collingson, Paul, and Helen Macbeth, (Eds.). Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Anthropology of Food & Nutrition Series. NY: Berghahn, 2014.
  
  
• Community Food Security Coalition
  
  
• Community for Food Security Coalition
  
  
• Farm Radio International (FRI)
  
  
• FDA -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  
  
  • A to Z Subject Index
    
    
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  • Consumers
    
    
  • Animal & Veterinary
    
    
• Food Access Research Atlas -- USDA Economic Research Service
  
  
• The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  
  
  • Food Security
    
    
    • The State of Food Insecurity in the World
      
      
    • Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems
      
      
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  • Practical Guide: Basic Concepts of Food Security
    
    
  • World Summit on Food Security
    
    
  • Food Balance Sheets
    
    
• Food Crisis Prevention Network
  
  
• "Food Factor" -- Apps for Development, World Bank
  
  
• Food Insecurity in the World -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Food Security in the World -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Food Security and Ag-Biotech News -- Meridian Institute
  
  
• The Food Security and Nutrition Forum
  
  
• Food Secure Canada
  
  
• Food Security Guide -- OneWorld UK
  
  
• Food Security Home -- Project on Societal Distress, Virginia Commonwealth University
  
  
• Food Security in Asia and the Changing Role of Rice -- The Asia Foundation (October 2010)
  
  
  • Food security is a global concern, and it seems fitting that scholars at The Asia Foundation would be interested in such a pressing international development and policy issue. This paper was released in October 2010, and it looks at the "challenges, opportunities, and likely action points for achieving shared food security." The paper was authored by C. Peter Timmer, and it was commissioned to coincide with a major conference, "Food for All: Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific". The paper is based on a set of remarks given at the conference, and it includes a framework for understanding food security and a helpful section on the changing role of rice in Asia. -- The Scout Report [KMG] (February 25, 2011 | Volume 17, Number 8
    
    
• Food Security Statistics -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  
  
• The Food Speculator [from ] -- Kees Brouwer, Director
  
  
  • The Food Speculator [from Top Documentary Films] -- Kees Brouwer, Director
    
    
• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  

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• The Great Tablecloth a poem by Pablo Neruda -- Food in the Arts
  
  
• Hauter, Wenonah. Foodopoly: The Battle over the Future of Food and Farming in America. NY: The New Press, 2012.
  
  
• Hesterman, Oran B. Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All. NY: Perseus/Public Affairs, 2011.
  
  
• Hunger and Food Security -- Teaching the Food System, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
  
• Indigenous Permaculture
  
  
• Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific -- Asian Development Bank
  
  
• Jones, Andrew D., Francis M. Ngure, Gretel Pelto, and Sera L. Young. "What are we assessing when we measure food security? A compendium and review of current metrics." Advances in Nutrition: An International Review Journal 4, no. 5 (2013): 481-505.
  
  
• Krätli, Saverio, Christian Huelsebusch, Sally Brooks, and Brigitte Kaufmann. "Pastoralism: A critical asset for food security under global climate change." Animal Frontiers 3, no. 1 (2013): 42-50.
  
  
• Latest Stories in Green Food -- Treehugger ["a media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream"]
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.
  
  
• Leathers, Howard D., and Phillips Foster. The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World, Fourth Edition. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009.
  
  
• Leonard, Christopher. The Meat Racket: The Scret Takeover of America's Food Business. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
  
  
• Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  
  
• Levenstein, Harvey. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  
  
• Living Wage Calculator -- Amy Glasmeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  
• Martindale's Nutrition Center Dairy, Meat, Fish, Poultry, Cereals, Fruit, Vegetalbes, Herbs etc.
  
  
• McDonald, Bryan L. Food Security. Polity, 2011.
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
  
  
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• Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.
  
  
• Parenti, Christian. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. NY: Nation Books, 2011.
  
  
• Patel, Raj. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2008.
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. "The Food Issue--An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief." The New York Times Magazine. 9 October 2008.
  
  
  • Michael Pollan. Bill Moyer's Journal. PBS (28 November 2008). (Watch Video; Read Transcrip) -- Few people reflect and report more astutely on the state of American food production and consumption than Michael Pollan. Beginning with his fascination in plant cultivation, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, Pollan has become a mixture of reporter and prophet, documenting the state of American food and warning of the consequences if we don't change our ways.
    
    
• Pottier, Johan. Anthropology of Food: The Social Dynamics of Food Security. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1999.
  
  
• Program on Food Security and Environment -- Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
  
  
• Pullman, Madeleine, and Zhaohui Wu, Food Supply Chain Management: Economic, Social and Environmental Perspectives, Routledge, 2012.
  
  
• Riddervold, Astri, and Andreas Ropeid. Food Conservation: Papers given to the International Conference on Ethnological Food Research. Prospect, 1988.
  
  
• Roberts, Paul. The End of Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
  
  
• Robin, Marie-Monique. The World According to Monsanto. New Press, 2012.
  
  
  • [film] The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin, Director. (109 min., 2008)
    
    
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• Rosenberger, Nancy R. Seeking Food Rights: Nation, Inequality and Repression in Uzbekistan. Wadsworth, 2012.
  
  
• Sustainable Food -- Sustainweb
  
  
• Tudge, Colin. So Shall We Reap: How Everyone Who Is Liable To Be Born In The Next Ten Thousand Years Could Eat Very Well Indeed; And Why, In Practice, Our Immediate ... Are Likely To Be In Serious Trouble. London: Penguin, 2003
  
  
• United Nations World Food Programme
  
  
• Urban Institute: Fact Sheets
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
  
  
  • USDA: 2012 Census of Agriculture
    
    
  • Diet, Health and Safety
    
    
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    • Food Security & Hunger
      
      
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• Wilson, Annne C. Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation from Early Times to the Present Day. Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
  
  
• Women, Agriculture and Food Security -- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
  
  
• Women and sustainable food security -- Sustainable Development Department (SD), FAO
  
  
• World Food Clock -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  
  
• The World Food Summit
  
  
• World Summit on Food Security -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  
  
• Young, Elizabeth M. Food and development. Routledge, 2013.