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Books @Your MacKillop Library

This is a selection of books available in the MacKillop Library.

The True Cost of Food by Katie Dicker
Call Number: 306.3 DIC
Food for Life by John Baines
Call Number: 338.19 BAI
Food and Farming by Rob Bowden
Call Number: 630 BOW
Grain Farming by Angela Crocombe,
Call Number: 633.10994 CRO
Fruit and Vegetable Farming by Angela Crocombe,
Call Number: 634.0994 CRO
Dairy and Beef Farming by Angela Crocombe,
Call Number: 636.200994 CRO
Sheep and Wool Farming by Angela Crocombe,
Call Number: 636.300994 CRO
The Foods We Eat by Nicholas Brasch,
Call Number: 641.3 BRA
From Field To Plate by Michael Bright
Call Number: 641.3 BRI
Reducing Your Foodprint by Ellen Rodger
Call Number: 641.3ROD

Book Resources

Honey by Carol Jones
Call Number: 641.38 JON
Food and fair Trade by Paul Mason
Call Number: 336.8 MAS
Summary: All sorts of food, from bananas to cocoa beans and coffee, can be grown in fairer and more sustainable ways than has traditionally been the case. In Putting the Planet First: Food and Fair Trade, discover how people around the world are working all the time to find new ways to grow and trade food fairly and sustainably. Learn too, what you can do to help the environment, and about small changes you can make that will have a real impact.
Healthy Seas by Carol Inskipp
Call Number: 333.916416 INS
What happens if we overfish the oceans? by Angela Royston
Call Number: 333.95616 ROY

You Tube

Websites

Coles Online
Use this website to find out specific information about Coles products.
Woolworths Online
Use this website to find out specific information about Woolworths products.
Australia’s food supply chain : Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
Comprehensive website with information on Australia's food supply chain.
Foodmap: An analysis of the Australian food supply chain
Comprehensive website with information on Australia's food supply chain.
Woolworths: Meet The Growers
Use this website as a link to meeting Australian growers to gain information for the Part One: Research component of the assessment.
Choice Magazine: Buying Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
This website details information about buying fresh, in season, fruit and vegetables.
Agriculture and Food of Western Australia
Follow the links on this website for information on Western Australian food production.
Dairy Australia
Use this website to discover the journey of milk from dairy cow to you.
Australian Pork: Types of Farming
Use the links on this website to find information on the different types of pig farming.
Learn About Egg Farming
This website is full of information and videos regarding Egg Farming.
The Red Meat Industry
This is a very comprehensive website about the red meat industry in Australia.
Vegetable Farming
Explores all aspects of vegetable production from the farm, processing and to markets.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Intensive Fruit Farming
Intensive farming appears to be the way of the future. It allows farmers to produce more from a smaller area of land, and usually consumes less resources. Many countries throughout the world – but especially in more developed countries – are turning away from traditional farming methods and instead using intensive food production techniques.

Database Articles - Proquest eLibrary - if required User name: prendcc1100 - pw: elau

Norway turns to radical salmon farming methods
Norway's salmon producers are turning to radical farming techniques in the face of multiple threats to their industry.
Researchers: New Diet to Stop Cow Farts ‘Will Fight Climate Change’
A Massachusetts-based aquaculture company is trying to fight climate change by mass producing a type of seaweed that, if fed to cows, will make them fart and burp less