
Food
Emily Moore(Author)
Hodder Children's Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-340-72405-7 (ISBN)
Description
We all need to eat to survive, but do you know where the food on your plate come from? Or, why there are so many hungry people in the world? This book presents a discussion of issues such as hunger, famine, factory farming and diseases such as BSE and E-coli. It introduces the history of food production, going on to cover world food trading and how this affects the developing world. Finally it looks to the future, organic farming and genetic engineering.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
b&w line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-72405-7 (9780340724057)
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Persons
Emily currently works full-time at the Guardian newspaper as a journalist on the 'Education Guardian' supplement.