Summer Reading List:

Eric Schlosser (2005) Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset (1998) World Hunger: Twelve Myths [Second Edition]
Raj Patel (2007) Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Deborah Barndt (2008) Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail [Second Edition]
Michael Pollan (2006) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Related Project Links:

Nathan Meltz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYXdk9vSSr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pljxFSgBCTk&NR=1
http://nathanmeltz.com

Tracy Miller:
www.featureinc.com/artist_pages/miller_artistpg.html

Sample food desert map for Hudson, NY:
http://www.batchgeo.com/map/a1f7599b0fb92f30f3d807f27f707912

articles on the topic of food deserts
http://www.ers.usda.gov/amberwaves/november08/features/affordhealthydiet.htm

economics of food, farming, natural resources and rural america
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/

“Global Food Crisis [Five Part Series],” Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/globalfoodcrisis/

“The Food Crisis Comes Home,” Food First Backgrounder
http://www.foodfirst.org/files/pdf/bgr102708.pdf