He offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. The book explains the ways that cultures, biology, and political systems structure the edible environment.--

An important emphasis in this text is on the nature of contemporary ecological issues, how peoples worldwide adapt to them, and what the Western world can learn from their experiences.

After showing how food has been central to Chinese government policies, religious rituals, and health practices from the earliest times, E.N. Anderson turns to present-day China, describing in rich and enticing detail the regional varieties ...

While important scientific data about ecosystems is mushrooming, E. N. Anderson argues in this powerful new book that putting effective conservation into practice depends primarily on social solidarity and emotional factors.

All peoples and cultures face environmental issues—but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history.

This book joins others in noting that the international community has rarely intervened in time, and in the hope that these findings will encourage more prompt action.

Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat.

Equally important, he offers much insight into why our own environmental policies have failed and what we can do to better manage our resources.

Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China traces the development of the food systems that coincided with China's emergence as an empire.

For instance, traditional subsistence agriculture is broadly sustainable at current population densities, but hunting is not, and modern mechanized agriculture has an uncertain future.