Guides: Catalyst 300: Food
Summary
Food is essential to human survival: it fuels our bodies and provides livelihoods. Our lands and oceans produce enough food – yet a third is wasted every year. Over 11% of people in the world are hungry and 3.1 million children die as a result of malnutrition annually. In the United States, one in eight people do not know where their next meal might come from (Feeding America, 2018). The future of our food supply will be further challenged by climate change, environmental degradation, and worldwide poverty and inequality. The goal of this case is to ensure continued support for agriculture and fishing so that current and future generations are able to produce and have access to safe, healthy, high quality, and culturally appropriate food.
Government Documents, Statistics, Websites
Proquest Statistical Abstract: 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets) of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Information available both by searching and browsing.
Our World in Data: Our World in Data (OWID) is a free, non-profit website. Our mission is to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them
Earth Resources Science and Observation Center (EROS) at USGS
National Land Cover Database from EROS
USDA Economic Research Service: Major Land Uses
USDA-NASS: Local Food Marketing Practices survey data
USDA-NASS: Organic Agriculture survey data
Getting Started
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Call Numbers and Subject Headings
You can use the list of call numbers and subject headings below as keyword searches in our catalog and databases, or you can go to these sections of the library to find books on these topics
- GT 2850-2960 Eating & drinking customs, Food history
- S 1–972 Agriculture (general)
- S560-571.5 Farm economics. Farm management.
- SB 1–1110 Plant culture
- SF 1–1100 Animal culture
- SH 1–691 Aquaculture, fisheries, fishing
- HD9000-9495 Agricultural industries
- TX 341–641 Nutrition. Food and food supply
Subject Headings
Books
Books from Lane Library
All books in this list are located either in the Franzen Center on Floor 3A or are e-books.
Food justice undone : lessons for building a better movement / HD9008.L6 G37 2026
How to feed the world : the history and future of food / HD9000.5 .S65 2025
Survival food : north woods stories by a Menominee cook / E99.M44 W47 2023 and e-book
A handbook of food crime : immoral and illegal practices in the food industry and what to do about them / HD9000.5 .G73 2019
Getting something to eat in Jackson : race, class, and food in the American South / GT2853.U5 E96 2021
Food loss and food waste : causes and solutions / HD9000.5 B63 2019
The economics of sustainable food : smart policies for health and the planet / HD9000.5 .E36 2021
Food supply chain management : building a sustainable future / HD9000.5 .P85 2021
Unsavory truth : how food companies skew the science of what we eat / TX360.U6 N475 2018
Food loss and waste policy: From theory to practice / HD9000.5 .F6635 2023
Articles
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Proquest Social Science: Over 550 full-text journals covering a range of social science topics.
AGRICOLA: The National Agricultural Library (NAL) facilitates the creation of agricultural knowledge through the acquisition, curation, and dissemination of the information needed to solve agricultural challenges today and in the future.