Food Systems Program
Faculty Bookshelf
We Asked - They Shared
Here are books and other media that changed the way our facutly think about Food Systems.
Books
Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems
by S.R. Gleissman. (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2007)
Recommended by Ernesto Mendez.
Civic Agriculture
by Tom Lyson. (Tufts University Press, 2004).
Recommended by Vern Grubinger.
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher
by Fred Kirschenmann & Constance Falk.
(Counterpoint, 2011).
Recommended by Cynthia Belliveau.
Diet For A Small Planet
by Frances Moore Lappe. (Ballantine, 1971).
Recommended by Linda Berlin.
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer. (Back Bay Books, 2010).
Recommended by Terence Cuneo and Elizabeth Berman.
Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
by Gary Paul Nabhan. (University of Arizona Press, 2002).
Recommended by Yolanda Chen.
Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It
by Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen. (McGraw-Hill, 2004).
Recommended by Jean Harvey-Berino.
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
by Frances Moore Lappe. (Houghton Mifflin, 1977).
Recommended by David Conner.
Food Security in a Global Economy: Veterinary Medicine and Public Health
by G. Smith, A.M. Kelly (Eds). (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Recommended by John Barlow.
Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the West
by Mark Fiege. (University of Washington Press, 2000).
Recommended by Cheryl Morse.
Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
by James McWilliams. (Back Bay Books, 2008).
Recommended by Elizabeth Berman.
North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual
by T. Perkins, R. Heiligmann and M. Koelling. (Ohio State University Extension, 2006).
Recommended by Timothy Perkins and Abby Van Den Berg.
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
by E.F. Schumacher. (Harper and Row, 1975).
Recommended by Deborah Neher.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
by Gary Paul Nabhan. (North Point Press, 1987).
Recommended by Yolanda Chen.
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
by Gary Patricia Klindienst. (Beacon Press, 2006).
Recommended by Teresa Mares.
The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply-And What You Can Do About It
by Paul Roberts. (Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
Recommended by Elizabeth Berman.
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
by Peter Singer and Jim Mason. (Rodale, 2007).
Recommended by Terence Cuneo.
- The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology
by Joan Dye Gussow. (Bull Publishing, 1978).
Recommended by Cynthia Belliveau.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, 2007).
Recommended by Deborah Neher.
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
by William Cronon. (Norton, 1996).
Recommended by Cheryl Morse.
Journals
Gastronomica: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
Recommended by Elizabeth Berman.
Blogs
Recommended by Elizabeth Berman.
U.S. Agricultural and Food Policy Blog
Recommended by Elizabeth Berman.
Films
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Director: Ang Lee, 1994.
Recommended by Pablo Bose.
Food, Inc. Director: Robert Kenner, 2008.
Recommended by Binta Colley.
The Weight of the Nation. HBO, 2011.
Recommended by Rachel Johnson.
Reports
The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters. A report by Sarah Treuhaft (PolicyLink) and Allison Karpyn (The Food Trust).
Recommended by Matt Kolan.
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century. A report by the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Recommended by Linda Berlin.
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