The Penguin Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 128 pages
• Published by: Penguin Non-Classics March 25, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0142002240
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0142002247
• Book Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 13.4 ounces

From Booklist
By means of colored maps, bar graphs, pie charts, and data tables, Millstone and Lang make comprehensible a wealth of complex statistical data on where the food we eat comes from, who eats what, who produces it, and what that means for nutrition, the environment, and economics. In full-color graphics, the authors show how nations compare with one another on such diverse topics as disease, over- and under-nutrition, animal feeds, pesticide use, trade flows, staple foods, fast food, alcohol consumption, and advertising. The authors clearly intend to demonstrate the results that globalization and technological advance have wrought. Graphs on food aid clearly show that despite its huge aid outlay, the U.S. actually contributes through governmental channels comparatively little of its wealth. Supplementing the graphs, a massive table lays out precise numbers from which the graphs were generated, and a bibliography provides guidance through the source documentation. Most all data cover the years 1999-2001. This is a significant and valuable guide to worldwide food-related statistics. Mark Knoblauch
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Product Description
From the excessive use of grain to satisfy meat-eating demands to the safety of new food technologies, The Penguin Atlas of Food utilizes ninety-six pages of maps and graphics to show how the food chain is affected by historical events, political economy, natural disasters, and changing lifestyles.

Reader Reviews
The Atlas of food is not a cookbook but a cursory view of food and agriculture around the world in 100 pages or so. Rich of tables, charts and histograms of different shapes and colors, it provides a basic knowledge on food industry. The book is divided into five parts: Contemporary Challenges (population and productivity, environment, consuming diseases, over and under-nutrition in the world, and food aid); Farming (mechanization, animal feed, genetic modification, pesticides, fishing, biodiversity and sustainable farming); Trade (flows, animal transport, food miles, subsidies, trade disputes, fair trade); Processing, Retailing and Consumption (staple foods, processing giants, probiotics and cholesterol lowering food, organic food, fast food, food additives, eating out and alcohol); and world tables on agriculture and consumption. If you want to know the state of the world of under-nutrition and over-nutrition, or that the amount of grain needed to feed one person for one year on a meat-based diet is 930 kg or on a grain-based diet is 180 kg and many more questions answered, then this is the book. Very good for students and general readers. However, if instead you want to have a deeper look at food and agriculture and related issues then visit the website of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (...).