In the face of rising population, food insecurity is emerging as a global challenge. Nutritious
sources of food are frantically being searched for and so far underutilized food candidates …

Collaborative approaches in health, such as One Health (OH), are promising; nevertheless,
several authors point at persistent challenges for designing and implementing OH initiatives …

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in
its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes …

This paper offers a critical examination of the narrative landscape that has emerged with a
new movement of alternative proteins intended as substitutes for conventional meat, milk …

How do science and technology shape the world? Or medicine and engineering? How does
the world in turn shape them? And how, if at all, might we intervene in these processes …

In the early 21st century quite a few social scientists and scholars in the humanities are
arguing that we should pay more attention to things material. For, as they say, not only …

Insects play a key role in European agroecosystems. Insects provide important ecosystem
services and make a significant contribution to the food chain, sustainable agriculture, the …

In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold,
and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become …

Background There is recognition that a reduction of consumer demand for foods that have
large environmental footprints is necessary. Recent innovations in food production …

This paper discusses the current state and priorities of Europe-based research on insects as
food and feed, based on presentations at a workshop held in December 2015, and …