Food Economics

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    • A Hungry Economist Explains the World
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....

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    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

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    • Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
    • By: Rebecca Burgess
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear - by a leader in the movement for local textile economies....

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    • How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work
    • By: Ben Hartman
    • Narrated by: Robert David Grant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food....

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    • Money
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Emily Sophie Knapp
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Learn about Food Security with iMinds Money's insightful fast knowledge series....

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    • The True Cost of Cheap Meat
    • By: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry....

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • By: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

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    • Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living
    • By: Andy Brennan
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Long before the advent of conventional farming methods - which have focused on constant growth, human intervention, and genetic homogeneity - the apple had already grown to become the ubiquitous all-American symbol it is today....

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    • Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
    • By: Bartow J. Elmore
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This authoritative and eye-opening history examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system....

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    • Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
    • By: Josh Noel
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s. John Hall and his son Greg brought European flavors to America. Then, on March 28, 2011, the Halls sold the brewery to Anheuser-Busch InBev, which forced the industry to reckon with craft beer's mainstream appeal....

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    • Be the Solution to the Crises We Face: Increasing Deaths from Climate Change, Lack of Water and Food, Economic Crises, Fake Democracy, Risk of War, and Future Pandemics.
    • By: Samy Barnat
    • Narrated by: John Hopkinson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook explains based on science and facts how you can be the solution to the big crises we will face to cover our basic needs (food, water, health). It’s just a question of time before the next economic crisis....

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    • American Experiences in Global Perspective
    • By: Mansel G. Blackford
    • Narrated by: Patrick J. Hinchliffe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Despite exponential growth in the fishing industry, the global wild fish catch reached a plateau and stagnated. As numerous scientific reports showed, many fish stocks around the world collapsed, creating a genuine global overfishing crisis....

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    • How Money Can Be Food for the Soul
    • By: Tad Crawford
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-12
    • Language: English
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    • The Secret Life of Money leads listeners on a fascinating journey to uncover the sources of our monetary desires, and by understanding why money has the power to obsess us, free ourselves....

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    • Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat
    • By: Chloe Sorvino
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • A shocking and unputdownable exposé of the United States meat industry and the corruption driving it that “is required reading for anyone who eats” (Christopher Leonard, New York Times bestselling author).

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    • The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
    • By: Peter H. Gleick
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 29-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Bottled & Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last 100 years - and why we are poorer for it....

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    • Food and Longing in an American City
    • By: Kim Foster
    • Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect....

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    • The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
    • By: Annelise Orleck
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists....

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    • Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control
    • By: Gabriela Pechlaner
    • Narrated by: Lisa Baney
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 and 2010....

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