Food
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2020
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3rd edition
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4177-5 (ISBN)
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4177-5 (ISBN)
We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world’s population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy in recent decades has highlighted a number of vulnerabilities and contradictions inherent in the way we currently organize this vital sector. Extremes of both undernourishment and overnourishment affect a significant proportion of humanity. And attempts to increase production through the spread of an industrial model of agriculture has resulted in serious ecological consequences.
The fully revised and expanded third edition of this popular book explores how the rise of industrial agriculture, corporate control, inequitable agricultural trade rules, and the financialization of food have each enabled powerful actors to gain fundamental influence over the practices that dominate the world food economy and result in uneven consequences for both people and planet. A variety of movements have emerged that are making important progress in establishing alternative food systems, but, as Clapp’s penetrating analysis ably shows, significant challenges remain.
The fully revised and expanded third edition of this popular book explores how the rise of industrial agriculture, corporate control, inequitable agricultural trade rules, and the financialization of food have each enabled powerful actors to gain fundamental influence over the practices that dominate the world food economy and result in uneven consequences for both people and planet. A variety of movements have emerged that are making important progress in establishing alternative food systems, but, as Clapp’s penetrating analysis ably shows, significant challenges remain.
Jennifer Clapp is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Unpacking the World Food Economy
Chapter 2: The Rise of a Global Industrial Food Market
Chapter 3: Expanding Food Trade
Chapter 4: Growing Corporate Control
Chapter 5: The Financialization of Food
Chapter 6: Justice and Sustainability in the World Food Economy?
Notes
Selected Readings
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.06.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Resources |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-4177-2 / 1509541772 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-4177-5 / 9781509541775 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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