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Sustainable diets : how ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system / Pamela Mason, Tim Lang.

By: Mason, Pamela, 1969- [author.]Contributor(s): Lang, Tim [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2017Description: 354 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415744720 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Food supply | Diet | Nutrition | Agrobiodiversity | Farming and Country Life | Farming and Country LifeDDC classification: 338.1'9 Summary: How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet's impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard. This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activities are driving the mismatch of humans and the planet.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet's impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard. This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activities are driving the mismatch of humans and the planet.

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