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Topic:Urban Resilience Series – our modern food system Guest a Organization:https://infiniteearthradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Walker-author-photo.jpg ()Kevin D. Walker grew up farming and has seen almost every facet of agriculture firsthand, working in agribusiness, at the US Department of Agriculture, overseas with international nonprofits, and as a professor at Michigan State University. He has served on committees with the National Academies Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, and as a consultant to foreign governments and the World Trade Organization. The Grand Food Bargain and the Mindless Drive for More (Publication Date: March 26, 2019) provides a powerful look at the global consequences of America’s modern food system. In it, Kevin D. Walker combines a lifetime of food system experience with pivotal research to craft a sweeping history of our relationship with food. The result is a stunning indictment of a system that prioritizes volume over nutrition, low costs over livable wages, and blinds consumers to harmful effects ranging from polluted rivers and food waste to obesity and disappearing species. https://infiniteearthradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WalkerCover.-r01-04jpg.jpg ()Resources: https://islandpress.org/books/grand-food-bargain (The Grand Food Bargain and the Mindless Drive for More by Kevin D. Walker) http://www.islandpress.org/urp (Island Press Urban Resilience Project) https://islandpress.org/resilience-matters-download (Download the Island Press Urban Resilience Project’s new, free e-book Resilience Matters: Strengthening Communities in an Era of Upheaval)