Shannon CaplanOregon State University Fall 2025 was a turbulent time for the food social safety net and those who work … More
Tag: Food policy
Review: Performing State Boundaries
Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld … More
Big Food’s Corporate Science Takes Firm Hold in China
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. … More
ENVISIONING A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER: A TRIBUTE TO ALAN SHAWN FEINSTEIN (1931-2024)
Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness … More
Thesis Review: Bittersweet – Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland
Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. 2022. Francesca … More
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a … More
The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during … More
Perspectives On U.S. Food Policy: Farm Bill 2018
Ellen Messer An essay inspired by Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story (2017, Simon and Schuster). What this account of economic decline … More
Food OpEd Fellowship opportunity in San Francisco
Received from Polly Adema, who is the Director of the Master of Arts in Food Studies Program at the University … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 27, 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? … More
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