The Atlas of Food - Who Eats What, Where and Why (Paperback, 2nd New edition)

Now completely updated, this award-winning atlas maps every link of the food chain, from farming, production and retail to the food on our plates. It also investigates how, in an era of new technologies, globalized food trade and even plentiful supply, millions remain hungry. Topics include: prices and shortages, malnutrition, dietary changes and increasing obesity, climate change impacts, industrial farmin, live animal trade, GM Crops, fertilizers and pesticides, organic farming, land rights, trade justice, and, finally, fast food and additives.