What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond.

By providing an up-to-date and visually appealing understanding of important issues around global food and agriculture, The Atlas of Food maps out broad areas of investigation—contamination of food and water, overnutrition, micronutrient deficiency, processing, farming, and trade—to offer a concise overview of today's food and farming concerns. Buttressed by engaging prose and vivid graphics, Erik Millstone and Tim Lang convincingly argue that human progress depends on resolving global inequality and creating a more sustainable food production system.

CONTENTS:

Foreword by Marion Nestle
Contributors
Updated Introduction

PART 1 Contemporary Challenges
1 Current Concerns
2 Feeding the World
3 Unequal Distribution
4 Environmental Challenges
5 Water Pressure
6 Nutritional Deficiencies
7 Over-Nutrition
8 Contamination

PART 2 Farming
9 Mechanization
10 Industrial Livestock Production
11 Animal Feed
12 Animal Diseases
13 Agricultural R&D
14 Genetically Modified Crops
15 Pesticides
16 Fertilizers
17 Working the Land
18 Land Ownership
19 Urban Farming
20 Fishing and Aquaculture
21 Agricultural Biodiversity
22 Organic Farming
23 Greenhouse Gases

PART 3 Trade
24 Trade Flows
25 Live Animal Transport
26 Subsidized Trade
27 Trade Disputes
28 Trade Dependency
29 Fair Trade

PART 4 Processing, Retailing and Consumption
30 Staple Foods
31 Changing Diets
32 Processing Giants
33 Retail Power
34 Organic Food
35 Food Additives
36 Eating Out
37 Fast Food
38 Alcohol
39 Advertising and Marketing
40 Citizens Bite Back

PART 5 Data Tables
Agriculture
Consumption

Sources
Index

AUTHOR:

Erik Millstone is Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University, London, Chair of Sustain, and is a consultant to the World Health Organization.