With the Covid 19 pandemic, food resilience has been a pressing issue. Food resilience is the ability of a country to withstand and recover from any crisis or disruptions to the supply of food that ensures that everyone is able to assess food. In this edition, NUS libraries brings us four new titles for us to understand food resilience.
Your Reading Summary:
Read four texts about Food resilience
In our Literary Journal, Yuki shares some titles related to grief
Joyce reviews The Ghost Bride
Wan Qin reviews a collection of funny reads
Wan Qin reviews Breakfast at Tiffany's
This Weeks Reads: Food Resilience
Clicking on the title or book image will link you to the full text.
Feeding Cities
The chapters show that it is critical to conduct research on existing efforts to determine what works and to develop best practices in pursuit of sustainable and socially just urban food systems.
The book analyzes current dynamics and trends related to the climate resilience of food security and assess the relevance of emerging approaches
Interplay of Trade and Food System Resilience
Increased dependency on imports and a reduced number of import partners indicates a potential vulnerability to disruptions in linked food systems.
Food System Resilience and COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food system has exposed the vulnerabilities of the supply chain, although the extent of disruption varies widely, globally and in Asia.
Literary Journal
We publish original articles written by our team that cover a range of topics from the trendiest authors to books, reading news and more! Simply put, Lirra's Literary Journal is your go-to publication for all things reading.
Stories about Grief - By Yuki
Death touches us all, and yet this topic seems to go undiscussed and abandoned in Singapore. In this week’s article, Yuki shares how she confronts death through some recommendations.
Ranging from non-fiction like Being Mortal, to biographical pieces like When Breath Becomes Air, Yuki proffers a list of recommendations for the uninitiated. If you’re new to death and dying and want to know where to start, click the link in the bio!
Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride, which was adapted into a Netflix series in 2020, explores the Chinese tradition of ghost marriage. It tells the story of Li Lan, an impoverished girl in 1890s Malacca who receives a proposal from a wealthy family to become the ‘ghost wife’ of their deceased son.
In this book review, Joyce Lee delves into the theme of the afterlife and what beliefs surrounding it might say about the living.
Being stressed out is no joke. In this week’s article, Wan Qin Tan recommends four memoirs that will tickle your funny bone and help you cope with the exam stress.
Audrey Hepburn’s portrayal of the lovable and effortlessly chic socialite, Holly Golightly, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s has captured the imaginations of cinema-goers for over sixty years. But how much do you know about the book that the classic film was based on?
In this week’s article, Wan Qin Tan takes a closer look at Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and its theme of abandonment.
