Food preferably has to be tasteful, healthy, attractive, and affordable, but should above all be safe. The safety of our daily food nowadays is at a reasonable level, but is far from obvious. With a certain frequency, food safety incidents come up, and the increasing complexity and globalization of our food production networks contribute to an easy outgrow of such incidents to international cri...

Feeding the world depends on protecting our valuable ecosystems and biodiversity. Currently, increasing public awareness of problems posed by current industrialized food system has resulted in increased support for creative market economically, socially, ecologically sustainable production systems enhanced demands variations agricultural policies regulations. In production, restoration protecti...

Societies with low-level food production economies occupy the vast and diverse middle ground between hunting–fishing–foraging and agriculture. Efforts by Ford, Harris, Rindos, Zvelebil, and others to characterize this “in-between” territory are discussed, and a new conceptual framework is proposed. Domestication, the central landmark of this middle ground, is situated well away from the boundar...