Exploring claims, controversies, positions, interests and values connected with food.
- Urbanization, population growth and the global food supply
- The political economy of food
- Food prices inflation and food scarcity
- Food supply, transportation and storage
- Free markets versus agricultural protectionism and subsidies
- Farm law and public financing
- The impacts of developed world trade barriers on the developing world
- Hunger and poverty: public policy in food and nutrition
- WHO policies on world nutrition
- Global food ethics
- Farmers’ organizations and movements
- Farm worker rights
- Fast food and slow food
- Celebrity and media chefs
- Consumer ‘taste’
- Vegetarian, vegan and other dietary systems
- ‘Ethnic’ and regional foods
- Food taboos: kosher, halal etc.
- The cultures of ‘the table’
- Food sociability
- Gendered home cooking patterns
- School and community food gardens
- The alternative food movement
- Food advertising and food media
- Food safety regulations and guidelines
- Food self-sufficiency and ‘food sovereignty’
- ‘Fair Trade’
- Animal rights and welfare initiatives
- Food sovereignty and free trade regimes
- Malnutrition and international food programs
