Covering fast food, organic food, junk food, institutional food, and more, this guide shows how “real food” has become increasingly scarce, with production and distribution increasingly dominated in the West by agri-business. The guide goes on to present the alternatives that are emerging based on the concept of community food security. Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. An author and columnist for NOW Magazine , he’s on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world. "Couldn't be more timely, especially given the great deal of rubbish being served to a public hungry for answers about their food ... a powerful book." -- Raj Patel, author of Starved & Stuffed: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System Winner of the 2008 Eco-Hero Award (Planet in Focus) "As globalization obscures locality of ecosystems and communities with brands and logos, the best way to recognize our true nature and needs is food... What species do we consume, where, how and by whom were they reared and harvested, what was the ecological footprint of the food? Books like this get us started in our thinking and our actions."--David Suzuki "Life-enhancing! Unlike most academic books on food, [this] is highly readable."--Kevin Morgan, Professor, School of City & Regional Planning, Cardiff University "In this era of global fear, Eduardo Galeano warns, one portion of humanity fears it will suffer from hunger, while others fear they will suffer from food. Millions of people suffer from a food price `crisis,' even after the biggest harvest in history. Yet even those with money for all the food they could ever want still have to worry about the kind of poisons that come with their food. This timely and enlightening book offers effective remedies to such predicaments. To name the intolerable is itself an act of hope."--Gustavo Esteva, Zapatista advisor, negotiator and visionary, co-inventor of the of the Mexican resistance slogan: "no corn, no country", author of the classic Grassroots Post-Modernism "Wayne Roberts really gets that you must have a diversified food system with the combination of local production, practical policy, and deep analysis. He gets the message out with a great sense of humor."--Will Allen, Growing Power, Milwaukee "With a voice I admire-clear, playful, and passionate all at the same time-Wayne Roberts weaves through an analysis that is both historically andgeographically sweeping, fascinating personal encounters in countries as diverse as Brazil, India, South Korea, the United States, and Canada--his homeland. The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food is eminently readable...and should be useful to both general and specialized audiences interested in food system issues. Planners especially will resonate with the book's call for the need to correct the many kinds of market failure created by modernist food systems; they will also appreciate the diverse models of practice it illustrates."--Kami Pothukuchi, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Wayne State University "[A] lucid, readable account of the Modernist Food System and multifaceted efforts to transform it. This is a superb introduction to the unfolding contradictions of food and farming since World War II. Its special strength is a clear vision of how myriad dandelions of sustainability and justice are widening the cracks in a dangerously rigid and homogenizing agrifood system."--Harriet Friedmann, Professor of Sociology and Fellow, Centre for International Studies, U of T "This invaluable guide not only has a tough-minded analysis of what's wrong with our food system, but also inspiring, no-nonsense recommendations for action. Anyone involved in the many positive and exciting food campaigns going on in the world today will be energized by this book."--Jeanette Longfield (MBE), Coordinator, Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming (UK) Dr. Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist and practitioner in community food security. He currently serves on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world. Roberts is also a regular columnist for the Toronto alternative weekly, NOW Magazine. Few people learn that food production is one of the world's dirtiest industries, doing more damage to more territory than logging, mining or heavy industry. Used Book in Good Condition