Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From? write by Neil Morris. This book was released on 2006. Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The food we choose affects people's lives and the environment. This book shows how the global food market is affecting all of us. Case studies, recipes, and fascinating facts help make this book useful and engaging to students.
Where Our Food Comes From
Where Our Food Comes From - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where Our Food Comes From write by Gary Paul Nabhan. This book was released on 2012-02-13. Where Our Food Comes From available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter. In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, visits to local outdoor markets, and comparison of his own observations in eleven countries to those recorded in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world. It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. In telling his story, Where Our Food Comes From brings to life the intricate relationships among culture, politics, the land, and the future of the world’s food.
See Inside Where Food Comes From
See Inside Where Food Comes From - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook See Inside Where Food Comes From write by Emily Bone. This book was released on 2016-10-24. See Inside Where Food Comes From available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With over 90 flaps, the scenes in this colourful book show children where the food they eat comes from. They can discover food produced on farms, in the sea and in greenhouses, and the importance of wheat, rice and corn around the world. There's a map with flaps showing where the things we love to eat, including chocolate, olives and tea, come from.
The Selfish Crocodile
The Selfish Crocodile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selfish Crocodile write by Faustin Charles. This book was released on 2014-06-26. The Selfish Crocodile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All of the animals are afraid of the Selfish Crocodile - he never let's them into his river, and he's always so snappy! And so when the Selfish Crocodile finds himself in terrible pain, no-one wants to help him - after all, what if he gobbles them up? But, to everyone's surprise, there is one animal in the forest who is willing to help . . . A brilliant tale of friendship, The Selfish Crocodile has become a picture book classic.
Eat for Life
Eat for Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eat for Life write by National Academy of Sciences. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Eat for Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Results from the National Research Council's (NRC) landmark study Diet and health are readily accessible to nonscientists in this friendly, easy-to-read guide. Readers will find the heart of the book in the first chapter: the Food and Nutrition Board's nine-point dietary plan to reduce the risk of diet-related chronic illness. The nine points are presented as sensible guidelines that are easy to follow on a daily basis, without complicated measuring or calculatingâ€"and without sacrificing favorite foods. Eat for Life gives practical recommendations on foods to eat and in a "how-to" section provides tips on shopping (how to read food labels), cooking (how to turn a high-fat dish into a low-fat one), and eating out (how to read a menu with nutrition in mind). The volume explains what protein, fiber, cholesterol, and fats are and what foods contain them, and tells readers how to reduce their risk of chronic disease by modifying the types of food they eat. Each chronic disease is clearly defined, with information provided on its prevalence in the United States. Written for everyone concerned about how they can influence their health by what they eat, Eat for Life offers potentially lifesaving information in an understandable and persuasive way. Alternative Selection, Quality Paperback Book Club
