Food, Health, and the Environment

The Food, Health, and the Environment series presents the theories, evidence, and strategies that enable scholars, practitioners, and activists to identify and advance just and resilient food, health, and environmental systems. Titles in the series offer critical analyses of food production, distribution, and consumption, from the global to the local, unmasking the political, economic, cultural, and technological dimensions of existing food systems and illustrating pathways for transformation. Authors approach their subjects from diverse disciplines, theoretical frameworks, and methods, challenging existing approaches and thinking about food, and offering readers unique perspectives on current controversies. These may range from how the charitable food system stigmatizes the food insecure to the ways immigrant Latinx farmworkers can transition to farm owners and their efforts to use traditional—and sustainable—growing practices.

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Modern Chinese Foodways

Edited by Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King and Jakob A. Klein

ISBN: 9780262551311

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 4, 2025

An edited collection that explores the multifaceted experiences of Chinese culinary modernity both within and outside of mainland China from the mid-19th century to present.

The Painful Truth about Hunger in America

Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again

by Mariana Chilton

ISBN: 9780262048309

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 1, 2024

A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US.

Transforming School Food Politics around the World

Edited by Jennifer E. Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert

Foreword by Silvia Federici

ISBN: 9780262548113

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 28, 2024

How to successfully challenge and transform public school-food programs to emphasize care, justice, and sustainability, with insights from eight countries across the Global North and South.

Seed Activism

Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South

by Karine E. Peschard

ISBN: 9780262544641

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest.

Acquired Tastes

Stories about the Origins of Modern Food

Edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel and Anna Zeide

ISBN: 9780262542913

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 17, 2021

How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930: stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat.

The Immigrant-Food Nexus

Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America

Edited by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone

ISBN: 9780262538411

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 24, 2020

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways.

Feeding the Other

Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries

by Rebecca T. de Souza

ISBN: 9780262536769

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 9, 2019

How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.