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Origin.
See
Geographical origins

Overnutrition

Overspecialization

Overweight

Owen, David

Paarlberg, Robert

Pack, Charles Lathrop

Page, John

Papa John's
(restaurant chain)

Paracelsus

Parisian truck farmers

Pasour, E. C.

Pastureland

Peak oil

PÃ©pin, Jacques

Perishable food

Permanent human settlements

Perry, George Powell

Pest build-ups

Pesticides

arsenic-based

natural

organic

subsidizing

Pharaonic Egypt

Phosphate fertilizer

Phytophthora infestans

Pierre, Doudou

Pilcher, Jeffrey M.

Pingree, Chellie

Pinker, Steven

Plants

domestication of

mutations

See also
Species

Plato

Pliny the Elder

PolÃ©se, Mario

Policy.
See
Food policy

Pollan, Michael

animal production and

governmental food purchasing and

as rock star

on taste, nutrition and safety

Polycultures

famine and

productivity of modern

resources

See also
Diversification

Polyface
farm

Pompeo, Joe

Population

bomb

hunger and

percent living in cities

Pork War

Porter, George Richardson

Post-war reconstruction

Potatoes

blight

genetically modified

monoculture and

ripening periods(fig.)

Poverty

Preservation

health effects of technologies in

latitude and

technologies

Preservatives

Prevor, Jim (“Perishable Pundit”)

Price (food)

ceilings

consumer standards of living and

controls

floors

humanistic pursuits and

of 100-mile diet

premium

spikes

subsidies and

swings

transportation costs and

transportation developments and

Processed products

Processing

Produce(table)

conventional
versus
organic

Producer

consumer-, relationship

small

urban food

Production (food)

apples

costs

domestic

economies of scale in

European substitutions during military blockades

fate of

greenhouse gas emissions

increase

in proximity to city limits

strawberry

subsidies

tomatoes

urban land and

value per worker

See also
Animal production

Productivity

differentials

of modern polycultures

Profitability

Prohibitions

Protein

Purcell, Mark

Pyrethrum flower

Quaker Oats

Quality control

Railway food security and

The Rape of the Earth” A World Survey of Soil Erosion
(Jacks & Whyte)

Raw materials

Redway, Jacques

Refrigeration

Reinhard, Karl J.

Republic
(Plato)

Reserves

Resources

natural

Retail sector

See also
Farmers' Market; Supermarkets

Rhode, Paul W.

Rice

genetically modified

imports

Richardson, Jill

Ridley, Matthew

Rimas, Andrew

Rinderpest

Rio Red grapefruit

Ripening periods

green peas

of potatoes(fig.)

Risk

Roberts, Pat

Rochester, New York

Rocky Mountain locusts

Rome

imperial history

Warming period

Rooftop gardens

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rose production

Ross, A. B.

Rucker, Randal R.

Rural communities

Rural folks

Rural poverty

Russell Smith, Joseph

Sahelian cereal banks

Saint Louis, Missouri

Salatin, Joel

Salmonella

Salt(table)

Sanitation

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara Syndrome

Sasol

Saunders, Caroline

Savary des BrÃ»lons, Jacques

Schiller, Otto

Scientific research

food safety and

standards of living and

Season extension

Seasonality

ripening periods (fig.)

storage and

Security.
See
Food security

Seed

companies

Self-sufficiency

See also
Autarky

Selick, Karen

Shannon, Fred A.

Shantytowns, social capital and

Silent Spring
(Carson)

Sinclair, Upton

SkyFarm project

Skyscraper

Smith, Adam

on autarkic policies

Smith, Denis Mack

Smith, Kenneth

Social argument, for local component of SOLE

Social capital

CSAs and

farmers' markets and

grades, standards, and brands

international chains and

relationships and

shantytowns and

Social welfare policies

SOLE.
See
Sustainable, organic, local, and ethical

South Korea

Specialization, regional

geography and

latitude and

monoculture and

in perishable products

Species

invasive

non-native

Spices(table)

Sprawl

Standardization (product)

food waste and

geographical origins and

Standards (food)

Standards of living

consumer prices and

science and

Stopgap food policy

Storage

food reserves and

seasonality and

Strawberry production

Subsidies fixing

production

See also
Invisible hand

Subsistence agriculture

livestock and

Subsistence farmers

food shortage and

Subsistence homesteads

Suburbs

Sugar(table)

cane

Superbugs

Supermarkets

food safety

items in

mom-and-pops
versus

social capital and

Superweeds

Supply-restriction schemes

Sustainable, organic, local, and ethical (SOLE)

critics of

See also specific components

Synthetic chemicals

Synthetic fertilizers

Synthetic methods

food safety prior to

Taste

argument for local component of SOLE

Pollan and

Taylor, Greg

Tea(table)

Telegraph

Temperature control

Terminator genes

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(Hardy)

Third horseman

slaying of

Thoreau, Henry David

Time, trade-offs and

Tomatoes

production of

social costs involved in growing

Top soil loss

Torfs, Louis

Traceability

Trade

barriers

climate change and

dependence on

erosion and

food security and

free

green cities and

land management and

origins of

reliance on long-distance

systems of

Trans-Atlantic

water usage and

Trans-Atlantic trade

Transportation

building of infrastructure

consumer

costs and prices of food

developments in

food waste and

greenhouse gas emissions of

latitude and

mode
versus
load

technologies

wartime efforts to reduce

See also
Railway;
specific modes of transport

Treaty of Versailles

Trichinosis

Triticale

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques

Two-class system (food)

Uganda

U.K.
See
United Kingdom

Unbalanced nature

Undernourishment

Unhealthy diets

United Kingdom (U.K.)

food commodities sold in London (table)

See also specific places

United States (U.S.)

biotechnology and

employed farmers

foodborne illness in

Irish potato famine and

staple crops

See also specific places

Urban folks

Urban food producers

Urban labor markets

Urban land

Urban livestock

Urban Potato Patches

Urban sprawl

Urbanization

food imports and

high-density

See also
City

U.S.
See
United States

Value

agricultural production per worker

feel good

Varro

Vegetarian diet

Vertical farming

Victory Gardens

Vilsack, Tom

Virgil

Vitalism

Vitamins

Vogt, William

Walden
(Thoreau)

Wartime

gardening

local food initiatives (photo)

transportation reduction efforts

See also
World War I; World War II

Waste.
See
Food waste

Waste & Resources Action Programme

Water

contamination

usage

Wells, David Ames

What Is Seen and What is not Seen
(Bastiat)

Wheat

Whey plant

Whitbeck, Ray Hughes

Whyte, Robert Orr

Williams, Adrian

Wimberley, Ronald C.

Winfrey, Oprah

Wisconsin whey plant

Wolmar, Christian

World Trade Organization (WTO)

World War I

World War II

Denmark during

Japan during

Xenophon

Young, Arthur

You-pick

Zoning

Pierre Desrochers
is an associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on economic development, globalization, energy, and transportation issues. He was a senior research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.