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Front cover of book titled Practising Food Studies.

Practising Food Studies

This book offers an introduction to food studies, a multidisciplinary field concerned with animal welfare, the impact of climate change on food production, the nutrition of various food items, and fair, equitable and just working conditions for food labourers and workers. The book is a collection of essays from faculty members and graduates of the NYU Food Studies program

What are food systems?

Many social, economic, moral, and environmental concerns are interconnected and interact with each other through food, and do so in complex ways. In order to understand this, we need to apply a 'systems thinking' approach to food. This building block explains what is meant by the term 'food system' and provides a brief introduction to the food systems approach. Last update: 15 Dec, 2017 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/be6ff2e7