ETHICS 180s: Political & Ethical Economy of Food: Getting Started

• Political Science Complete (EBSCO)

• PAIS

• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

• Global Insight

• ProQuest Congressional

• CQ Electronic Library

• NationalJournal.com

• HeinOnline

• Global Food Price Monitor

• World Food Situation

• Food Outlook

• Crop Prospects and Food Situation

• OECD/FAO Agricultural Outlook

• Monthly News Reports on Grains

• Rice Market Monitor

• Oilcrops Monthly Price and Policy Monitor

• Other commodity markets

• Statistics

GDAE-IATP Report: Jan. 2012

Download the report and summary, or watch an interview with the authors.

Read more on the Global Food Crisis.  Read more on IATP's work on food and agriculture.

Welcome to the Duke University Libraries' research guide for Shana Starobin's course on Political & Ethical Economy of Food.

This guide offers a selection of resources about the emerging world of food studies, politics, and climate change. 

Discipline-specific resources can be found via the tabs at the top of the page.

This guide is a work in progress; if you have any comments, suggestions, or requests about resources to add, please contact us!

Special thanks to Amber Welch, graduate student at UNC-SILS, for her contributions to this guide as part of her internship with the Duke Libraries, fall of 2011.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

• State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2011
  Raises awareness about global hunger issues, discusses underlying causes of hunger and malnutrition and monitors progress towards hunger reduction targets.  Pdf of book can be downloaded.

• State of Food and Agriculture
  FAO’s major annual publication, aims to bring science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture.  Each document can be downloaded:

• 2010: Women in Agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development

• 2009: Livestock in the balance

• 2008: Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities

• 2007: Paying farmers for environmental services

• 2006: Food aid for food security?

• 2005: Agricultural trade and poverty: Can trade work for the poor?

• State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO)

Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why

Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries 

Encyclopedia of Environment & Society

Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change

Food: From Farm to Fork Statistics

Foodways

Nanotechnologies in Food