Soil, Food, Health, and the Environment

‘ Environment and Food ’ or Population , Health , Environment , and Food ?

A s commentators on Colin Sage’s book Environment and Food (Sage 2012) and with one of us as a member of the ‘meet the critics’ ’ session at AAG 2012, we are pleased to collaborate with fellow critics and Sage on furthering the compelling debates he develops in his timely and sharply executed book. Together, as a geographer (David) dedicated to coupled human-land systems – and as a reviewer for...

Food Policy: Integrating Health, Environment and Society

Assessing farmers' knowledge of Moghan plain about the consequences of chemical pesticides for community health, the environment, and food security

Background and Objective: Farmers in agricultural activities deal with various forms of chemical pesticides and thus their knowledge level can have a positive or negative impact on the food health of a community and the environment. Understanding their knowledge about the consequences of poisoning will provide an effective extension for promoting environmentally friendly methods in farms and ma...

“Big Food,” the Consumer Food Environment, Health, and the Policy Response in South Africa

Despite continuing high levels of underweight and nutritional deficiencies [1], overweight and obesity among both adults and children is a rapidly growing public health problem in South Africa [2,3,4,5]. In 2000, an estimated 36,504 deaths (7% of all deaths) in South Africa were attributed to excess body weight [6], and in 2004 non-communicable diseases (NCDs) linked to dietary intake—cardiovas...

Risk and the food safety chain: animal health, public health and the environment.

Food safety related to the consumption of animal-derived protein encompasses a wide variety of production and processing procedures which begins with the farm and inputs to the animals on the farm (e.g. feed and water) and includes the environment in which animals are reared. Hazards may be physical, artificial or naturally-occurring chemicals, organisms which cannot reproduce outside a specifi...