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Aya Hirata Kimura: Hidden hunger: gender and the politics of smarter foods

Aya Hirata Kimura: Hidden hunger: gender and the politics of smarter foods Agric Hum Values (2014) 31:529–530 DOI 10.1007/s10460-014-9524-4 Aya Hirata Kimura: Hidden hunger: gender and the politics of smarter foods Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2013, 136 pp, ISBN 978-0-8014-7859-8 George Kent Accepted: 1 June 2014 / Published online: 23 July 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 In Hidden Hunger, Aya Kimura, a colleague of mine at the products to sell, and their products are being promoted University of Hawai’i, explores ‘‘how and why fortification almost as if they were medicines. and biofortification became the preferred ‘solutions’ to the This study makes a major contribution to the emerging Third World food problem.’’ Fortification refers to the category of feminist food studies. Many others have noted addition of micronutrients to food products during the the distinct gender roles, but it is only recently that studies manufacturing process. Biofortification is the biological of food systems have been done with a distinctively fem- alteration of crops so that the plants themselves contain inist lens. Despite the dominant role women play in food more micronutrients. systems, from primary production in the fields, to pro- There are many exaggerated health claims about forti- cessing and marketing, all the way through to final prep- fied http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Aya Hirata Kimura: Hidden hunger: gender and the politics of smarter foods

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 31 (3) – Jul 23, 2014

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Publisher
Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2014 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine; History; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/s10460-014-9524-4
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Agric Hum Values (2014) 31:529–530 DOI 10.1007/s10460-014-9524-4 Aya Hirata Kimura: Hidden hunger: gender and the politics of smarter foods Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2013, 136 pp, ISBN 978-0-8014-7859-8 George Kent Accepted: 1 June 2014 / Published online: 23 July 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 In Hidden Hunger, Aya Kimura, a colleague of mine at the products to sell, and their products are being promoted University of Hawai’i, explores ‘‘how and why fortification almost as if they were medicines. and biofortification became the preferred ‘solutions’ to the This study makes a major contribution to the emerging Third World food problem.’’ Fortification refers to the category of feminist food studies. Many others have noted addition of micronutrients to food products during the the distinct gender roles, but it is only recently that studies manufacturing process. Biofortification is the biological of food systems have been done with a distinctively fem- alteration of crops so that the plants themselves contain inist lens. Despite the dominant role women play in food more micronutrients. systems, from primary production in the fields, to pro- There are many exaggerated health claims about forti- cessing and marketing, all the way through to final prep- fied

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Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Journals

Published: Jul 23, 2014

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