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Where does food come from? And what impact does its production have on the earth, on the women workers who move it from field to table, and on all who eat it? This study follows a corporate tomato from a Mexican field through the US to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, bio-diversity and cultural diversity. After tracing the tomato's journey through space and time (routes and roots), three case studies - a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket, and a US-owned fast-food restaurant - offer a view of globalization from above (corporate profiles), globalization from below (stories of women who plant, pick, pack, scan, slice and sell tomatoes), and the other globalization (acts of resistance and alternatives to the corporate model. This work grew out of a six-year collaborative project involving feminist academics, activists and popular educators from Mexico, the USA and Canada. Integrating over 100 photographs, this critical introduction to complex issues ends with signs of hope - creative responses by local and global movements for social justice and environmental sustainability.

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This is a detailed, ethnographically rich text for undergraduates. The feminist and ecological perspectives are clear and compelling. The book also fits nicely as a case study for the world capitalist system and food as commodity. This is the final work I assign in my food and culture class because it summarizes and applies so many of the course theories and concepts in a single case that students are able to use to discuss a variety of issues.--Carolyn Smith-Morris, Southern Methodist University

What consumers have both an obligation and a right to know about where their food comes from and what it means.--Rosset, Peter

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Deborah Barndt is a popular educator and photographer who teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. For over 25 years, she has worked with social justice movements in Canada, the U.S., and Central America. Her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and her extensive publications include Education and Social Change: A Photographic Study of Peru, To Change This House: Popular Education under the Sandinistas, Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action, and Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food, and Globalization (editor).

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