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The Food, Health, and the Environment series presents the theories, evidence, and strategies that enable scholars, practitioners, and activists to identify and advance just and resilient food, health, and environmental systems. Titles in the series offer critical analyses of food production, distribution, and consumption, from the global to the local, unmasking the political, economic, cultural, and technological dimensions of existing food systems and illustrating pathways for transformation.
The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again by Mariana Chilton is the newest book in the series and offers a radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US. Available for preorder now.
Series editor: Robert Gottlieb and Nevin Cohen
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