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As the top of abundance turns into an on a regular basis expertise in Europe, we’re pondering extra about the way in which our meals will get to the desk.
Decrease yields, larger costs and struggling communities are simply among the social and financial prices of water shortage and excessive climate. However how and what we eat can also be inextricably linked to identification, custom and cultural life.
Eurozine’s new focus Breaking bread: Meals and water programs below press examines the political, social and cultural facets of meals and water in European societies, highlighting the risks of a parched planet and on the identical time reaping among the seeds for a good and sustainable meals and water system.
Learn Jessica Furseth on misguided plans to fight city water shortages; Marta Sapała on the fridge as a standing image; Stefano Liberti on the Po Valley disaster; and Hussam Hussein on why water wars are usually not inevitable.
Accessible quickly: Ukraine because the breadbasket of Europe; meals preservation in Poland; modernity and flesh; a historical past of fertilizers; and the facility of the agricultural foyer.
The collection is an editorial collaboration between Eurozine and Inexperienced European Journal with the help of the EU Parliament to the Inexperienced European Basis, with contributions from throughout the Eurozine community of European cultural magazines.
