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Breadline USA: the hidden scandal of American hunger and how to fix it by 
The Political History of American Food Aid: an uneasy benevolence by 
SNAP Matters: how food stamps affect health and well-being by 
American Organic: a cultural history of farming, gardening, shopping, and eating by 
Organic: a journalist's quest to discover the truth behind food labeling by 
The GMO Deception: what you need to know about the food, corporations, and government agencies putting our families and our environment at risk by USDA - Price spreads and food markets - Summary and overview
CQResearcher - Global Hunger: Can the world feed itself in 2050?
Global Issues in Context - Biofuels Impact on Food Price and World Hunger
Food in America: the past, present, and future of food, farming, and the family meal by 
Biting the Hands That Feed Us: how fewer, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable by Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks--these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Biting the Hands that Feed Us introduces readers to the perverse consequences of many food rules. Some of these rules constrain the sale of "ugly" fruits and vegetables. Other rules have threatened to treat manure--the lifeblood of organic fertilization--as a toxin. Still other rules prevent sharing food with the homeless and others in need. There are even rules that prohibit people from growing fruits and vegetables in their own yards. Linnekin also explores what makes for a good food law.
Making Local Food Work: the challenges and opportunities of today's small farmers by When it comes to local food, it takes more than "knowing your farmer." Brandi Janssen takes on some of the myths about how the local food system works and what it needs to thrive. Advocates claim that small biodiverse farms will fundamentally change farming, rural communities, and the American diet. For many, simply by knowing our farmers we become champions of a new way of eating that revolutionizes our economy and society. But that argument ignores the fact that if local food is to succeed, it requires many of the trappings of conventional food production, including processors, middle men, inspectors, and regulators. How can they meet the needs of large buyers like school districts? Who does the hard work of planting, weeding, harvesting, and processing? Is local food production benefitting rural communities as much as advocates claim?
Waste: Uncovering the global food scandal by With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem--or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food--enough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Stuart is a dedicated freegan, who has chosen to live off of discarded or self-produced food in order to highlight the global food waste scandal.
Freegans: Diving into the wealth of food waste in America by If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste--while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws away--including food culled from supermarket dumpsters. Freegans is a close look at the people in this movement, offering a broader perspective on ethical consumption and the changing nature of capitalism. Freegans object to the overconsumption and environmental degradation on which they claim our economic order depends, and they register that dissent by opting out of it, recovering, redistributing, and consuming wasted goods, from dumpster-dived food to cast-off clothes and furniture.
American Wasteland: how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it) by As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements. As the era of unprecedented prosperity comes to an end, it's time to reexamine our culture of excess. Working at both a local grocery store and a major fast food chain and volunteering with a food recovery group, Bloom also interviews experts--from Brian Wansink to Alice Waters to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen--and digs up not only why and how we waste, but, more importantly, what we can do to change our ways.U.S. Department of State
United States Agency of International Development (USAID)
World Health Organization
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Food Security by 
Food Security in an Uncertain World by 
Food Security and Scarcity by 
The Handbook of Food and Anthropology by 
Food Insecurity by 
