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Origin.
See
Geographical origins
Overnutrition
Overspecialization
Overweight
Owen, David
Paarlberg, Robert
Pack, Charles Lathrop
Page, John
Papa John's
(restaurant chain)
Paracelsus
Parisian truck farmers
Pasour, E. C.
Pastureland
Peak oil
Pépin, Jacques
Perishable food
Permanent human settlements
Perry, George Powell
Pest build-ups
Pesticides
arsenic-based
natural
organic
subsidizing
Pharaonic Egypt
Phosphate fertilizer
Phytophthora infestans
Pierre, Doudou
Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
Pingree, Chellie
Pinker, Steven
Plants
domestication of
mutations
See also
Species
Plato
Pliny the Elder
Polése, Mario
Policy.
See
Food policy
Pollan, Michael
animal production and
governmental food purchasing and
as rock star
on taste, nutrition and safety
Polycultures
famine and
productivity of modern
resources
See also
Diversification
Polyface
farm
Pompeo, Joe
Population
bomb
hunger and
percent living in cities
Pork War
Porter, George Richardson
Post-war reconstruction
Potatoes
blight
genetically modified
monoculture and
ripening periods(fig.)
Poverty
Preservation
health effects of technologies in
latitude and
technologies
Preservatives
Prevor, Jim (“Perishable Pundit”)
Price (food)
ceilings
consumer standards of living and
controls
floors
humanistic pursuits and
of 100-mile diet
premium
spikes
subsidies and
swings
transportation costs and
transportation developments and
Processed products
Processing
Produce(table)
conventional
versus
organic
Producer
consumer-, relationship
small
urban food
Production (food)
apples
costs
domestic
economies of scale in
European substitutions during military blockades
fate of
greenhouse gas emissions
increase
in proximity to city limits
strawberry
subsidies
tomatoes
urban land and
value per worker
See also
Animal production
Productivity
differentials
of modern polycultures
Profitability
Prohibitions
Protein
Purcell, Mark
Pyrethrum flower
Quaker Oats
Quality control
Railway food security and
The Rape of the Earth” A World Survey of Soil Erosion
(Jacks & Whyte)
Raw materials
Redway, Jacques
Refrigeration
Reinhard, Karl J.
Republic
(Plato)
Reserves
Resources
natural
Retail sector
See also
Farmers' Market; Supermarkets
Rhode, Paul W.
Rice
genetically modified
imports
Richardson, Jill
Ridley, Matthew
Rimas, Andrew
Rinderpest
Rio Red grapefruit
Ripening periods
green peas
of potatoes(fig.)
Risk
Roberts, Pat
Rochester, New York
Rocky Mountain locusts
Rome
imperial history
Warming period
Rooftop gardens
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rose production
Ross, A. B.
Rucker, Randal R.
Rural communities
Rural folks
Rural poverty
Russell Smith, Joseph
Sahelian cereal banks
Saint Louis, Missouri
Salatin, Joel
Salmonella
Salt(table)
Sanitation
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara Syndrome
Sasol
Saunders, Caroline
Savary des Brûlons, Jacques
Schiller, Otto
Scientific research
food safety and
standards of living and
Season extension
Seasonality
ripening periods (fig.)
storage and
Security.
See
Food security
Seed
companies
Self-sufficiency
See also
Autarky
Selick, Karen
Shannon, Fred A.
Shantytowns, social capital and
Silent Spring
(Carson)
Sinclair, Upton
SkyFarm project
Skyscraper
Smith, Adam
on autarkic policies
Smith, Denis Mack
Smith, Kenneth
Social argument, for local component of SOLE
Social capital
CSAs and
farmers' markets and
grades, standards, and brands
international chains and
relationships and
shantytowns and
Social welfare policies
SOLE.
See
Sustainable, organic, local, and ethical
South Korea
Specialization, regional
geography and
latitude and
monoculture and
in perishable products
Species
invasive
non-native
Spices(table)
Sprawl
Standardization (product)
food waste and
geographical origins and
Standards (food)
Standards of living
consumer prices and
science and
Stopgap food policy
Storage
food reserves and
seasonality and
Strawberry production
Subsidies fixing
production
See also
Invisible hand
Subsistence agriculture
livestock and
Subsistence farmers
food shortage and
Subsistence homesteads
Suburbs
Sugar(table)
cane
Superbugs
Supermarkets
food safety
items in
mom-and-pops
versus
social capital and
Superweeds
Supply-restriction schemes
Sustainable, organic, local, and ethical (SOLE)
critics of
See also specific components
Synthetic chemicals
Synthetic fertilizers
Synthetic methods
food safety prior to
Taste
argument for local component of SOLE
Pollan and
Taylor, Greg
Tea(table)
Telegraph
Temperature control
Terminator genes
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(Hardy)
Third horseman
slaying of
Thoreau, Henry David
Time, trade-offs and
Tomatoes
production of
social costs involved in growing
Top soil loss
Torfs, Louis
Traceability
Trade
barriers
climate change and
dependence on
erosion and
food security and
free
green cities and
land management and
origins of
reliance on long-distance
systems of
Trans-Atlantic
water usage and
Trans-Atlantic trade
Transportation
building of infrastructure
consumer
costs and prices of food
developments in
food waste and
greenhouse gas emissions of
latitude and
mode
versus
load
technologies
wartime efforts to reduce
See also
Railway;
specific modes of transport
Treaty of Versailles
Trichinosis
Triticale
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques
Two-class system (food)
Uganda
U.K.
See
United Kingdom
Unbalanced nature
Undernourishment
Unhealthy diets
United Kingdom (U.K.)
food commodities sold in London (table)
See also specific places
United States (U.S.)
biotechnology and
employed farmers
foodborne illness in
Irish potato famine and
staple crops
See also specific places
Urban folks
Urban food producers
Urban labor markets
Urban land
Urban livestock
Urban Potato Patches
Urban sprawl
Urbanization
food imports and
high-density
See also
City
U.S.
See
United States
Value
agricultural production per worker
feel good
Varro
Vegetarian diet
Vertical farming
Victory Gardens
Vilsack, Tom
Virgil
Vitalism
Vitamins
Vogt, William
Walden
(Thoreau)
Wartime
gardening
local food initiatives (photo)
transportation reduction efforts
See also
World War I; World War II
Waste.
See
Food waste
Waste & Resources Action Programme
Water
contamination
usage
Wells, David Ames
What Is Seen and What is not Seen
(Bastiat)
Wheat
Whey plant
Whitbeck, Ray Hughes
Whyte, Robert Orr
Williams, Adrian
Wimberley, Ronald C.
Winfrey, Oprah
Wisconsin whey plant
Wolmar, Christian
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I
World War II
Denmark during
Japan during
Xenophon
Young, Arthur
You-pick
Zoning
Pierre Desrochers
is an associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on economic development, globalization, energy, and transportation issues. He was a senior research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.
Hiroko Shimizu
majored in history at Gakushin University and holds a master's of international public policy from Osaka University.
 
 
 

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