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Category: food policy

Christine Wilson Student Award 2011

Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition 2011 Christine Wilson Student Paper Award The Society for the Anthropology of … More

AAA meeting, Anthropology, awards, Christine Wilson, conference, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, student resesarch

Rethinking School Lunch

It has been many years since I last confronted a school lunch. While I can recall some spectacular lunchroom antics … More

activism, Anthropology, children, education, New Orleans, nutrition, school lunch

Anthropological perspectives on migration, food and nutrition

With the permission of the editors of Anthropology News, we republish SAFN’s monthly news column from that publication.  This is the May 2011 column, edited … More

Food policy, Food security, immigration, inequality, lead poisoning, migration, public health, refugees

Food Prices and Uprisings

There is unrest in Egypt. And Tunisia. These uprisings are being partly fueled by rising food costs, especially bread. The … More

Anthropology, food insecurity, Food policy, Food security

Contaminated cuisines and the omnivore’s dilemma

As a service to our readers and with the permission of the editors of Anthropology News, we have decided to … More

Anthropology, economics, evolution, food, Food security, food studies, omnivore's dilemma, pollan, SAFN, salmonella, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, sustainability

Food and Ethics Postdoc Announcement

Postdoctoral Bioethics Research Fellowship at Penn State with an emphasis on Food Ethics A postdoctoral position in bioethics with a … More

Anthropology, ethics, food, Food policy, postdoc

Seafood Solidarity

Even before I wrote up the restaurant guide for the upcoming AAA meeting in New Orleans, people were asking me … More

AAA meeting, Anthropology, disaster, food, Food policy, Food security, Louisiana, New Orleans, seafood, sustainability

City of Gastronomy

The BP Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (named, it seems, for the fictitious town invented by Gabriel Garcia … More

AAA meeting, Anthropology, BP oil spill, conference, disaster, Food policy, Gulf coast, Louisiana, New Orleans, seafood, sustainability

Wheat prices “tumble” — for now?

miles and miles of Washington wheat Last week I reported on the dramatic rise in wheat prices and suggested that … More

Anthropology, disaster, economics, Food policy, Food security, globalization, sustainability

Food prices on the rise (again)

Two years after the vicious spike in food prices, global food prices are once again on the rise. Are we … More

Anthropology, disaster, farmers' markets, food, Food policy, Food security, nutrition, sustainability

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