Humanity & Society: Book Reviews

By M. Pollan. 2006

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• The Economics of the Food System Revolution (2012, background): “It is beyond the scope of this review to discuss the burgeoning literature that rejects this trend (see, e.g., Pollan 2006, Nestle 2007), but virtually none of it is produced by economists.”
• The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword: Explaining Farmers’ Earnings and Self-exploitation in Community-Supported Agriculture (2013, background): “— Farmer 27 By now, the rise of organic agriculture as a social movement and the contradiction arising from its codification into external regulatory standards are well known stories (Buck, Getz, and Guthman 1997; Guthman 2004a; Pollan 2006).”
• Clicks as a Healthy Alternative to Bricks: How Online Grocery Shopping Reduces Vice Purchases (2017, background): “Marketing actions by supermarkets and food manufacturers often effectively trigger consumers to select more indulgent food products (Dubé et al. 2010; Kessler 2009; Pollan 2006; Popkin 2002).”
• An open access repository of images on plant health to enable the development of mobile disease diagnostics through machine learning and crowdsourcing (2015, background): “The essence of such movements were captured in Michael Pollan’s book, The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meal (Pollan 2006).”
• Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “There, as in Australia and many European countries, there is growing demand for organic and locally produced fruits, vegetables, fish, and meat, which is spawning an increase in the number of small-scale, highly diverse farms, often supplying urban markets (Kristiansen et al. 2006, Pollan 2006).”
• The political economy of food systems reform (2017, background): “…a massive programme to encourage the production of grain, corn especially, in the American countryside, most notably by introducing direct payments to farmers compensating for the otherwise low payments they would receive for their crops in situations of overproduction (Pollan, 2006: 51–53).”
• The insectivore’s dilemma, and how to take the West out of it (2015, background): “As somewhat hidden by recent books stressing the omnivorous nature of humans (e.g., Allen, 2012; Pollan, 2006), food choices are deeply varied and culturally-determined.”
• Farmers' markets and the “good food” value chain: a preliminary study (2008, background): “Local Environment 171 Standing against this trend, farmers’ markets are attempts to uphold the loosely coordinated local food economy (Pollan 2006).”
• Strawberry fields forever? Urban agriculture in developed countries: a review (2013, unknown): “In more recent times, books such as Omnivore ’ s Dilemma (Pollan 2006) and Fast Food Nation (Schlosser 2001) and documentaries such as Food, Inc. (Kenner 2008) have not only given mainstream audiences compelling critiques of the industrial agricultural system but also popularized alternative product”
• Willingness to Pay for Multiple Seafood Labels in a Niche Market (2014, background): “Popular culture, published literature, and marketplace behavior provide evidence of growing consumer interest in the origin of their food in general (Pollan 2006; Kenner et al. 2009; Kingsolver, Kingsolver, and Hopp 2009; Smith and MacKinnon 2007) and seafood in particular (Greenberg 2010).”
• Can cities become self-reliant in food? (2012, background): “…who do not have time may hire a garden care company as is currently done for lawn care throughout North America (Grewal, 2007), it remains to be seen, whether these homeowners will be willing to replace all or part of the their beloved lawn to plant a garden (Pollan, 2006; Robbins, 2007).”
• Drivers of food waste and their implications for sustainable policy development (2016, background): “Pollan (2007) points out that some cultures, particularly the .”