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Impressive and far-ranging, an extremely useful and comprehensive, if disturbing, read.' Financial Times
'Fascinating and comprehensive.' New Agriculturist
'This splendid presentation of deeply worrying data and trends should be a wake-up call.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'An extraordinarily clear basis for understanding the underlying issues, this vital study clearly shows how threatened the security of the food supply chain has become in a globally interconnected world.' Ecologist
'A unique and easily accessible insight into the way our world food system works. This splendid presentation of deeply worrying data and trends should be a wake-up call.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'A remarkable book that reveals with devastating clarity the bizarre way the world feeds itself. The quest to find out just what's happening to our food is no longer a journey without maps.' The Food Programme, BBC Radio 4
'A fascinating book which gives global perspective on food and its production and supply... extremely well illustrated with maps and graphs.' Nutrition and Food Science
'The Atlas of Food provides an authoritative account of the food chain.' Food Manufacture
'This is a terrific resource for those who want to know all about how the world feeds itseld, who produces what and where it goes. A comprehensive study.' Health Food Business
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This is a rich and stimulating cornucopia of selected, enticing
snippets of information. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
snippets of information. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At first it looked like a boring textbook, but it has a lot of information in easy to read format. I was especially interested in the charts at the back with information such as average birthweights, rates of heart disease, diabetes, amount of potable water per person, average calories consumed for countries. Compared side-by-side some figures really jump out at you. You'll learn which countries eat the most organic produce, which use the most pesticides (Beware the ones that won't report), which grow what where and so much more. I found this book fascinating.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Erik and Tim succeed in neatly presenting the extremely complex environment of the food supply chain as well as the substantial misconceptions that society has about food, its entire production and consumption chain as well as its consequences. For anyone even slightly motivated to reconsider his food choices and dietary behaviour, this book gives a wealth of arguments for tackling things differently. This atlas should be compulsory study in every education. Moreover its concept and design has strong educational potential.
I may fancy maps and atlases more than the average person, but the sheer pleasure of discovering so many insights in a such a simple way will surely work for most readers. The visuals used fit this type of information extremely well with and they make the key learnings from this atlas quite obvious for anyone.
As a compact database, the atlas is equally useful for the professional who needs to get a first view on some other aspects of this complex area where he may have less expertise.
If more people would have only a superficial understanding of some of the issues and causal interrelationships that figure in this book, it would already make a significant difference for the way our societies would value and use natural resources . This book is therefore very recommendable and useful reading and will definitely change the way you look at food and your daily consumption patterns.
I may fancy maps and atlases more than the average person, but the sheer pleasure of discovering so many insights in a such a simple way will surely work for most readers. The visuals used fit this type of information extremely well with and they make the key learnings from this atlas quite obvious for anyone.
As a compact database, the atlas is equally useful for the professional who needs to get a first view on some other aspects of this complex area where he may have less expertise.
If more people would have only a superficial understanding of some of the issues and causal interrelationships that figure in this book, it would already make a significant difference for the way our societies would value and use natural resources . This book is therefore very recommendable and useful reading and will definitely change the way you look at food and your daily consumption patterns.
27 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Food is vital for our health and welfare, and its production critically affects the environment as well as the wealth of nations. Despite a rapid increase in trade, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry, while chronic obesity is increasing worldwide.
Vividly presented through the creative use of maps and graphics, this atlas provides clear, authoritative and comprehensive accounts of the food chain, from plough to plate, and reveals how it affects the lives and livelihoods of us all, farmers and suburban shoppers alike.
One of the global maps in the book highlights the amounts of pesticides used per unit area across the world. The text goes on to remind the reader that pesticides are aggressively promoted worldwide, in particular in Asia and Latin America. But although they appear to provide a short-term increase in productivity, estimates of their value to agriculture rarely take into account their true costs. This includes damage to the environment and to human health, the development of pesticide-resistant pests, and the expense of testing for residues and disposing of unwanted chemicals.
Vividly presented through the creative use of maps and graphics, this atlas provides clear, authoritative and comprehensive accounts of the food chain, from plough to plate, and reveals how it affects the lives and livelihoods of us all, farmers and suburban shoppers alike.
One of the global maps in the book highlights the amounts of pesticides used per unit area across the world. The text goes on to remind the reader that pesticides are aggressively promoted worldwide, in particular in Asia and Latin America. But although they appear to provide a short-term increase in productivity, estimates of their value to agriculture rarely take into account their true costs. This includes damage to the environment and to human health, the development of pesticide-resistant pests, and the expense of testing for residues and disposing of unwanted chemicals.
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Food in the Future...
A very interesting read offering an insight into what could happen, if global population continues to grow as it appears to be doing at the moment.
Published 19 months ago by Travelling Matt
A must for all those who care about food politics
Who said that statistics and tables are boring. This book shows that a couple of pages of well-researched tables are worth more than a year's supply of sensationalist television... Read more
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