Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: food security, nutrition and sustainability in a globa lized world / Geoffrey lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington - - Breadbasket contradictions: the unstable bounty of industrial agricul ture in the United States and Canada / Tony Weis -- Security for whom? Changing discourses on food in Europe in times of a global food crisis / Gianluca Brunori and Angela Guarino -- The re-emergence of national f ood security on the United Kingdom's strategic policy agenda: sustainab ility challenges and the politics of food supply / David Barling, Tim L ang and Rosalind Sharpe -- Neoliberalism and food vulnerability: the st akes for the South / Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero -- Energy sec urity, agriculture and food / Jago Dodson ... [et al.] -- Unequal food systems, unhealthy diets / Sharon Friel and Wieslaw Lichacz -- Explaini ng patterns of convenience food consumption / Lisa Schubert, Megan Jenn away and Helen Johnson -- Public health and moral panic: sociological p erspectives on the "epidemic of obesity" / Stewart Lockie and Susan Wil liams -- The food regulatory system, is it protecting public health and safety? / Mark Lawrence -- The "wellness" phenomenon: implications for global agri-food systems / David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence -- Superm arkets, food systems and public health: facing the challenges / Libby H attersley and Jane Dixon -- Bodies, bugs and dirt: sustainability re-im agined in community gardens / Kelly Donati, Susan Cleary and Lucinda Pi ke -- Biofuels: finding a sustainable balance for food and energy / Sop hia Murphy -- Examining the mythologies of organics: moving beyond the organic/conventional binary? / Hugh Campbell ... [et al.] -- Nanotechno logy and the techno-corporate agri-food paradigm / Gyorgy Scrinis and K risten Lyons -- Conclusion: Big choices about the food system / Tim Lan g.