Our Daily Bread
The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to maximize efficiency, consumer safety, and profit.
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food
Le Cauchemar de Darwin [Darwin's Nightmare]
Darwin’s Nightmare is a story about people in the North and South, about globalization, and about fish.
A Lake of Opportunity: Rethinking Phosphorus Pollution and Resource Availability
This article outlines the “global P problem sphere” before moving to insights obtained from a Canadian case study that examines the opportunities of applying a paradigmatic focal shift to phosphorus understanding—“from noxious to precious”— as assessed and evaluated through the direct participation of local stakeholders.
Nutritional Science, Health, and Changing Northern Environments
This essay is drawn from a larger research project that examines the expansive, varied, and complex region of Northern Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Magic of One: Reflections on the Pathologies of Monoculture
About this issue
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter addresses monocultures as more than a cultural phenomenon, considering the science, economics, and technology behind the trend.
Content
Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
About this issue
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence over many centuries. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents exciting syntheses between research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
Content
“The Irish Famine of 1740–1741: Famine Vulnerability and ‘Climate Migration’”
The authors regard migration as a form of adaptation and argue that Irish migration in 1740–1741 should be considered as a case of climate-induced migration.
Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears
Ferrieres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Book chapter: Pimbert, Michel, "Transforming Knowledge and Ways of Knowing"
This chapter argues that transforming knowledge requires a radical shift away from the existing top-down and increasingly corporate-controlled research system and toward an approach which devolves more responsibility and decision-making power to farmers, food workers, and consumers/citizens for the production of knowledge in the natural and social sciences.
Book chapter: Pimbert, Michel, "Reclaiming Citizenship, Empowering Civil Society in Policy-making"
This chapter explores processes that can help claim active forms of citizenship, including learning from the rich history of face-to-face democracy, strengthening local organizations, using the potential of community controlled media (such as digital video, radio, press, and Internet), and engaging in deliberative and inclusive processes (DIPs) that can significantly enhance citizen voice and agency in decision-making today.