SPRI | Food Tech Transitions: Reconnecting Agri-Food, Technology And Society (2019 EN)

Author: Cinzia Piatti (Editor), Simone Graeff-Hönninger (Editor), Forough Khajehei (Editor)
Full Title: Food Tech Transitions: Reconnecting Agri-Food, Technology And Society
Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2019 edition (October 23, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9783030210595 (978-3-030-21059-5), 9783030210588 (978-3-030-21058-8), 9783030210618 (978-3-030-21061-8)
ISBN-10: 3030210596, 3030210588, 3030210618
Pages: 174
Language: English
Genre: Food Science
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 114.39 €


The food industry is now entering a transition age, as scientific advancements and technological innovations restructure what people eat and how people think about food. Food Tech Transitions provides a critical analysis of food technology and its impact, including the disruption potential of production and consumption logic, nutrition patterns, agronomic practices, and the human, environmental and animal ethics that are associated with technological change.

This book is designed to integrate knowledge about food technology within the social sciences and a wider social perspective. Starting with an overview of the technological and ecological changes currently shaping the food industry and society at large, authors tackle recent advancements in food processing, preserving, distributing and meal creation through the lens of wider social issues.

Section 1 provides an overview of the changes in the industry and its (often uneven) advancements, as well as related social, ecological and political issues. Section 2 addresses the more subtle sociological questions around production and consumption through case-studies. Section 3 embraces a more agronomic and wider agricultural perspective, questioning the suitability and adaptation of existing plants and resources for novel food technologies. Section 4 investigates nutrition-related issues stemming from altered dietary patterns. Finally, Section 5 addresses ethical questions related to food technology and the sustainability imperative in its tripartite form (social, environmental and economic).

The editors have designed the book as an interdisciplinary tool for academics and policymakers working in the food sciences and agronomy, as well as other related disciplines.


Overview:
✓ Examines the role of technology in food production from a pluralistic perspective, with chapters from experts in sociology, agronomy, nutrition, and ethics
✓ Provides a critical analysis of the food security imperative and the issue of food waste
✓ Addresses the ecological imperative of the last decades and how it has affected both production and consumption in unprecedented ways

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