Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

1. Introduction: Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability in a Globalized World

Part I: Global Food Security

2. Breadbasket Contradictions: The Unstable Bounty of Industrial Agriculture in the United States and Canada
3. Security for Whom? Changing Discourses on Food in Europe in Times of a Global Food Crisis
4. The Re-emergence of National Food Security on the United Kingdom's Strategic Policy Agenda: Sustainability Challenges and the Politics of Food Supply
5. Neoliberalism and Food Vulnerability: The Stakes for the South
6. Energy Security, Agriculture and Food

Part II: Food Systems, Diet and Nutrition

7. Unequal Food Systems, Unhealthy Diets
8. Explaining Patterns of Convenience Food Consumption
9. Public Health and Moral Panic: Sociological Perspectives on the 'Epidemic of Obesity'
10. The Food Regulatory System - Is it Protecting Public Health and Safety?
11. The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems
12. Supermarkets, Food Systems and Public Health: Facing the Challenges

Part III: Towards a Sustainable Agri-food Future

13. Bodies, Bugs and Dirt: Sustainability Re-imagined in Community Gardens
14. Biofuels: Finding a Sustainable Balance for Food and Energy
15. Examining the Mythologies of Organics: Moving Beyond the Organic/Conventional Binary?
16. Nanotechnology and the Techno-corporate Agri-food Paradigm
17. Conclusion: Drawing Evidence from the Food System for Future Policy