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The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets - 2nd Edition
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Barkley
Publisher: New Prairie Press
License: CC BY-NC
The Second Edition of Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets (2019) is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses. The book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, labor markets, and natural resource sectors. The field of agricultural economics is relevant, important and interesting. The study of market structures, also called industrial organization, provides powerful, timely, and useful tools for any individual or group making personal choices, business decisions, or public policies in food and agricultural industries.
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Interpreting Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling for Health Professionals
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Lapum, St-Amant, and Hughes
Publisher: Ryerson University
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook provides the novice learner with a foundational understanding of Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling. It highlights important considerations for future health professionals seeking to adopt the new food guide into their practice, including strategies towards healthy eating. This open textbook underscores a relational inquiry approach to inform discussions with clients about nutrition and healthy eating.
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Food Product Development Lab Manual
Copyright Year: 2021
Contributors: Prusa and Gilbert
Publisher: Iowa State University
License: CC BY-NC-SA
A practical how-to illustrating the process of developing a new food product from ideation and formulation to processing and lastly commercialization. This book highlights the overall process and gives instructions for each of the steps along the way.
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Understanding the “General Principles of Food Hygiene” (including GHP and HACCP) published in 2020 by Codex Alimentarius, and its applications on food industry and catering in Taiwan
Copyright Year: 2021
Contributors: Chiang, Hsu, and Lin
Publisher: Software Liberty Association, Taiwan
License: CC BY-NC-SA
The Codex Alimentarius published a new version of ‘’General Principles of Food Hygiene’’ in November 2020. The series of the document has been critical for countries/organizations to develop and revise their food regulations/certifications. Thus, the new release will trigger revisions on food regulations/certifications.
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Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Szanto, Di Battista, and Knezevic
Publisher: eCampusOntario
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Food Studies aims to help readers understand and address numerous issues within food, food culture, and food systems. These subjects transcend disciplinary boundaries and call attention to how matter, meaning, and movement produce complex and dynamic food-human realities. Chapters range from sovereignty to breastfeeding, financialization to food porn, pollination to fair trade. Embedded throughout, art, poetry, illustration, and audiovisual works offer moments to reflect on and synthesize the text-based entries. Through reading, classroom discussion, and engaging with the extensive pedagogical tools, learners and teachers alike may acquire a new sense of things foodish—along with a new sense of their own place and role within food systems themselves.
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Human Geography
Copyright Year: 2023
Contributors: Rosenfeld and Burtch
Publisher: VIVA
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome to Human Geography! If you are interested in how humans interact with the environment and how human systems are geographically distributed over space, then you’ve found your place. We hope that find this textbook useful and enjoyable; please dive in by clicking “Contents” to immerse yourself in all-things-human geography.
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Fundamentals of Human Geography
Copyright Year: 2023
Contributor: Cheung
Publisher: Wing Cheung
License: CC BY
Fundamentals of Human Geography is a college-level digital textbook aimed at introducing undergraduate students to the field of human and cultural geography.
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Elementary Chinese I
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributor: Zhou
Publisher: Michigan State University
License: CC BY-NC
This open textbook is designed for beginners learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. This book aims to introduce learners to standard Chinese pronunciation, character knowledge, basic conversational phrases, grammar and vocabulary use, and cultural knowledge. Throughout the eight chapters, learners will explore: greetings and self-introduction, hobbies, nationalities, family members and occupations, inviting friends to dinner, talking about food and beverage, making phone calls, and talking about classes and exams. Learning activities include audio recordings so students can listen to the pronunciation of vocabulary words and observe dialogue between speakers. The book also includes videos with captions, allowing learners to listen, watch, and read. Original interactive activities have been created by the author to facilitate the practice of target vocabulary and dialogues.
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Elementary Arabic I
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Issa and Mohamed
Publisher: Michigan State University
License: CC BY
This open textbook is intended for beginning students of Arabic in their first semester. This OER is unique in its presentation of Arabic language content through theme-based modules. Each theme is addressed through vocabulary, grammar, reading, speaking, and writing components. Each chapter includes self-check embedded quizzes that help learners digest language concepts. The book is also designed with teachers in mind. Each chapter includes pair work and group tasks that the teacher can implement in class and other parts that can be assigned as homework. The focus of the book is to build literacy in Standard Arabic structure in a simplified and sequenced approach while emphasizing speaking skills. By the end of this course, students will be well prepared for building their competence in a sequenced and organized manner in the following parts of this series.
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Comparisons of the Codex Alimentarius Principles of Nutrition Labelling and Relevant Guidelines of Taiwan and the United States
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Chiang, Yuan, and Liang
Publisher: Software Liberty Association, Taiwan
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling and The US 21 CFR PART 101.9 Nutrition Labeling are the primary references for Taiwan FDA to establish and amend the nutrition labeling regulations.
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