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	we want real food Graham Harvey Completely revised in a new B format paperback, Graham Harvey provides a concise, practical guide on how food can be grown in truly nutritious ways, the crucial importance of minerals in the soil and how to tell what's good and what isn't. Harvey explains not only why our food is in such a parlous state but how we can change what we eat and radically improve our health. This edition also contains: a comprehensive listings of outlets where readers can find the best foods; advice on 'How to give up the supermarket habit'; sections headed 'Which Foods to Buy' that help the reader to make the choice of which food is real food full of nutrients and which isn't; and, a new chapter on bio-fuels - attacking it the concept as a disastrous example of the agricultural industry's addiction to subsidies. 500pp more on food & drink general Price: £9.99
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	inquiries into the nature of slow money: investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered Woody Tasch Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations and serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. Leading the charge is Woody Tasch-whose decades of work as a venture capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur now shed new light on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility. He offers an alternative vision to the dusty old industrial concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when dollars, and the businesses they financed, lost their connection to place; slow money, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in the new economic, social, and environmental realities of the 21st century. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money is a call to action for designing capital markets built around not extraction and consumption but preservation and restoration. Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes. 240pp more on food & drink general Price: £13.50
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	good food for everyone forever: a peoples takeover of the world's food supply Colin Tudge Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy and this could be done without cruelty, or destroying our fellow creatures. By 2050 we will need to feed 9.5 billion people which is as big as the world population is ever likely to get. To achieve this we need only to design farming expressly for the purpose what in this book is called Enlightened Agriculture. 176pp more on food & drink general Price: £9.99
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	local harvest: delicious ways to save the planet Kate De Selincourt * SALE PRICE * 50% OFF * SALE PRICE * Buying food direct from small-scale local growers, it is possible to eat healthily and deliciously, at the same time contributing to the well-being of the planet. Packed with fascinating facts on food and nutrition, Local Harvest examines the many benefits of consuming fresh local produce. Good food cost less when it's local! Kate de Selincourt contrasts delicious local food with the unsavoury effects of supermarket led food production. For instance, she analyses the commercial ploys which depict rural scenes on packaging, when the likelihood is that the product has journeyed around the world and has been mummified by additives and preservatives. 224pp more on food & drink general Price: £5.00
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	animal, vegetable, miracle: our year of seasonal eating Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full of original recipes. 384pp more on food & drink general Price: £9.99
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	forgotten fruits: the stories behind britain's traditional fruit and vegetables Christopher Stocks In "Forgotten Fruits", Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry which, among other things, helped Charles Darwin to arrive at his theory of evolution. Not to mention the ubiquitous tomato, introduced to Britain from South America in the sixteenth century but regarded as highly poisonous for nearly 200 years. This is a wonderful piece of social and natural history that will appeal to every gardener and food aficionado. 320pp more on food & drink general Price: £8.99
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	the little food book Craig Sams A series of original mini-essays help create an easy-to-read insight into the politics and reality of food in the 21st century. Across the world, people are becoming increasingly concerned about the way food is mass produced from battery chickens and farmed salmon, to genetically modified crops, irradiated ingredients and the use of growth hormones. In the UK alone, 25,000,000 kilos of pesticides are sprayed on food every year, all adding to a growing belief that the food we produce is no longer safe to eat. The Little Food Book provides insight into all of these issues, developing powerful arguments chapter by chapter, although each chapter also stands alone as a concise outline of a particular issue. 160pp more on food & drink general Price: £6.99
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	precycle! Paul Peacock Would it surprise you that you could make a carpet cleaner for pennies that cost pounds? That you can make your own bacon, good bacon at that - far better than you can buy, for almost the price of cheap pork? Would you like to be able to make sauces at a penny a bottle or bread for a third of the price? Would it surprise you that the majority of the powder in the automatic washing powder is simply washing soda, and that this product works better for a fraction of the cost? Amongst all the fear and financial turmoil the world is experiencing, this book points a finger towards a different way of living and shows that we all shouldn’t just accept what is packaged up for our convenience as it is all too frequently too expensive, too polluting and ineffectual. It was borne out of an idea that the food the author bought from the supermarket often had ingredients that are not for him at all, but for the seller of the product in order to make it last longer on a shelf and bring down the unit cost. So he decided simply to leave it on the shelf and make his own. In short, this is a trip around the supermarket and points out how you can make what you find on the shelves. 224pp more on food & drink general Price: £7.95
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	diet for a small planet (20th anniversary edition) Frances Moore Lappé twenty years ago and three million copies later, the extraordinary book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating is still a complete guide for eating well today. Sharing her personal evolution and how this groundbreaking book changed her own life, renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé offers an all-new, even more fascinating philosophy on changing yourself - and the world - by changing the way you eat. 482pp click on image for contents page more on food & drink general Price: £7.99
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	waste: uncovering the global food scandal Tristram Stuart With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food - enough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, "Waste" shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it. 448pp more on food & drink general Price: £9.99
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	the no-nonsense guide to world food Wayne Roberts With spiralling food prices and spreading social unrest, this is a timely guide to the instability of industrialised food systems. It traces the history of food production and consumption and shows that in a system dominated by supermarkets and agri-business real food choices are becoming harder to make. This book asks all the right questions and provides some of the answers, in a real democratic debate about food. It shows how people and communities can take control from governments an dcorporations to organise themselves creatively to achieve 'food sovereignty' - a balanced, just and sustainable food system. 144pp more on food & drink general Price: £7.99
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	what's really in your basket? Bill Statham This user-friendly pocket shopping guide tells you at a glance which additives are hazardous, which chemicals are best avoided and which ingredients are safe, making it easier to shop for your family. The colour-coded, alphabetical tables provide valuable information about potential health effects and take the mystery out of additive codes, helping you to choose which product to put in your basket and which to leave on the shelf. WARNING: this book may seriously improve your health!! 335pp more on food & drink general Price: £5.99
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	eating: what we eat and why it matters Peter Singer and Jim Mason Written with investigative vigour, provocative and controversial but always accessible, "Eating" is a hard-hitting exploration of our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. But how concerned should we be about where our food comes from? Does the food we buy really affect the world around us? And what can we do? In "Eating", philosopher Peter Singer and environmentalist Jim Mason follow three families with varying eating habits, from fast-food eaters to vegans, to explore how the food we eat makes its way to the table, and at what expense. It also offers ways to make choices within the framework of a diet that includes animal products. 400pp click on image for contents page more on food & drink general Price: £7.99
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	bringing the food economy home: local alternatives to agribusiness Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield & Steven Gorelick If the many social, environmental and economic crises facing the planet are to be resolved, a good place to start is to rebuild local food economies. This title shows how a shift towards the local would protect and rebuild agricultural diversity, along with many other benefits. 176pp click on image for contents page more on food & drink general Price: £16.95
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	not on the label: what really goes into the food on your plate Felicity Lawrence An expose of the state of the food production industry in Britain. The author looks at some of the most popular foods we eat to show how the food industry causes ill health, environmental damage, urban blight, starving small-holders in Africa and Asia, and illegal labourers exploited in Britain, but you can improve the quality of the groceries you buy, by shifting your shopping pattern to local, seasonal and direct wherever possible. 240pp click on image for contents page more on food & drink general Price: £9.99
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	eating fossil fuels: oil, food and the coming crisis in agriculture Dale Allen Pfeiffer 'Eating Fossil Fuels' examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings, including the fact that studies suggest that without fossil-fuel based agriculture, the US could only sustain about two thirds of its present population. For the planet as a whole, the sustainable number is estimated to be about two billion. Concluding that the effect of energy depletion will be disastrous without a transition to a sustainable, relocalized agriculture, the book draws on the experiences of North Korea and Cuba to demonstrate stories of failure and success in the transition to non-hydrocarbon-based agriculture. It urges strong grassroots activism for sustainable, localized agriculture and a natural shrinking of the world's population. 125pp more on food & drink general Price: £9.99
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	farmers' markets: the uk potential Alan Chubb A Farmers' Market is one where local farmers and growers make up the majority of vendors. For a decade Farmers' Markets have been a big success in the USA. In Britain they could revolutionise the way we buy and sell our food. Buyers and sellers can have direct contact; retail costs and costs to the environment are greatly reduced; and customers can see exactly what they are getting. The Farmers' Market idea is simple, yet it effectively provides a solution to many social, economic and environmental problems. This book contains the research carried out by the Soil Association, covering the potential problems and important criteria of Farmers' Markets, a very good read for anyone interested in this field. click on image for contents page more on food & drink general Price: £5.00
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	tescopoly: how one shop came out on top and why it matters Andrew Simms This book shows how the inexorable rise of supermarkets , particularly Tesco, has brought about a commercial nanny state that knows more about you than you think, profiting from shelves full of global plunder and unpicking the fabric of our communities. In this searing analysis, Andrew Simms, one of Britain's leading experts on this issue tackles a subject that none of us can afford to ignore. 372pp more on food & drink general Price: £7.99
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