Global Seminar : Food: Spring 2015

Locavorism

• Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating
• Wendell Berry: In Distrust of Movements
• Leopold Aldo, "February - Good Oak" adapted from A Sand County Almanac (1949)

Sustainable Agriculture / GMO

• UNCTAD, Trade and Environment Review 2013. "Key Messages" and pp.1-8.
• Tim LaSalle, Paul Hepperly, Amadou Diap. "The Organic Green Revolution." Rodale Institute.
• H. Charles J. Godfrey, et al.,"The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People." Science, 12 February 327.5967 (2010): 812-18.

Food and Health; Obesity

• Ulijasze,S and Iofink H, “Obesity in Biocultural Perspective.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 35 (2006): 337-60.

Food Security, Hunger Activism

• 2014 Hunger Report, Ch. 5 (pp.151-170): Bread for the World Institute.
• Optional reading: Growing a Better Future. Oxfam, 2011. Web.

Localism in Food History: history and contemporary issues

• Battistoni, Alyssa. "Toward Cyborg Socialism." Jacobin Magazine. 13 Winter 2014. Web.
• Carlson, Andrew J. and Dennis G Carlson. Kossoye : A Village Life in Ethiopia. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, Inc., c2010. pp. 186-207.
• Jensen, Derek. "Forget Shorter Showers." Orion Magazine. July 7, 2009. Web.

Food Stamps and Public Distribution Systems

• Hamm, Michael and Anne C. Bellows. "Community food security: background and future directions." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 35.1 (2003): 37-43.
• Kaiser, Michelle and Kelly, Michael. "The fragile US Industrial Food System." Professional Development: The International Journal Continuing Social Work Education 16.1 (2013): 48-61.
• Singh, Maanvi. "Why A Philadelphia Grocery Chain Is Thriving In Food Deserts." The Salt. National Public Radio, May 14, 2015. Web.
• Sanger-Katz, Margot. "Giving the Poor Easy Access to Healthy Food Doesn’t Mean They’ll Buy It." The Upshot. New York Times, May 8, 2015. Web.

Resources Found by Students During Research

• "Draft Principles of Food Justice." Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 18 Oct, 2012. Web.
• Palus, Shannon. "Japan’s Massive Indoor Farm Produces 10,000 Heads of Fresh Lettuce Every Day." SmartNews. Smithsonian, 23 July, 2013. Web.
• Shiva, Vandana. "Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs." Common Dreams. Common Dreams, 20 May, 2015. Web.
• Starkman, Naomi. "Editor’s Note: The Local Food Revolution." Civil Eats, 1 Jun, 2015. Web.