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Biodiversity & Biotechnology
Modern Food Biotechnology: Principles and Perspectives: Frequently Asked Questions
Myth and Reality - Organic vs Non-organic : The Facts

Community Gardens
The Community Garden Book By Larry Sommers
Creating Community Gardens By Dorothy Johnson and Rick Bonlender
Creating Community in the City: Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C.
A Handbook of Community Gardening
How Does Our Garden Grow? A Guide to Community Gardening Success
A Place to Grow: Voices and Images of Urban Gardeners
Starting a Community Garden
Urban Gardening Program: The Coordinator's Book

Food Marketing & Labelling
Easy to Swallow, Hard to Stomach
Responsible Food Advertising: Proposals for the Review of Advertising Codes of Practice
Slim Hopes
TV Dinners: What’s being served up by the Advertisers

Food Security & Sustainable Development
Double Yield: Jobs and Sustainable Food Production
The Food Indicators Report
The Food Indicators Toolkit
Food Poverty: Policy Options for the New Millennium
Food With Latitude: A Report Exploring Food Project Links Across the North-South Divide
Good Food on the Public Plate: A manual for sustainability in public sector food and catering
Too Much and Too Little? - Debates on Surplus Food Redistribution
Working Together: Civil Society Working for Food Security in Canada

Food Preperation
Cook Great Food
Great Food Fast
Vegetarian Diets: Vegetarian Food Guide for North America

Health, Wellness & Nutrition

Abusing our Loaf?
Bitter Harvest, Bitter Beer
Carrot Fashion
Fat of the Land
Fowl Deeds
The Grab 5! Pack
How Green are our Strawberries?
Myths About Food and Low Income - “If They Don’t Eat a Healthy Diet it’s Their Own Fault!”
The Pear Essentials & How Green are our Apples?
The Perfect Pinta
Potatoes, People and Pollution
Salad Days
Soya: The Ubiquitous Bean
Sweet and Sour


Local Focus
The Essential Community Mapping Package
Developing Local Networks to Tackle Food Poverty
Making Links: A Toolkit for Local Food Projects
Reaching the Parts... Community Mapping: Working Together to Tackle Social Exclusion and Food Poverty
SRBs to PCTs: Understanding Local Structures and Area-Based Initiatives to Tackle Food Poverty

Research & Education
The Food Facts - A Resource Pack for Secondary Schools
A Model School Food Policy - A Practical Guide
Practical Promotion of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption - Especially Among Low Income Consumers
Right to the Core

Retail
A Battle in store. A discussion of the social impact of the major UK supermarkets

Processing, Packaging, & Transportation
Driven to Shop: Transport Intensity and the Environment
Eating Oil: Food supply in a changing climate
Food Miles Action Pack: A Guide to Thinking Globally and Eating Locally
Food Miles Report: The Dangers of Long Distance Food Transport
Food Miles: Still on the Road to Ruin?

Sociology of Food
A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite


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