Food

Name: Food
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ISBN: 9780745649368

ISBN-10: 074564936X

ISBN-13: 9780745649368

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jennifer Clapp

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Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of world's population gains a livelihood from agriculture and we all consume food. Yet control over this fundamental resource is concentrated in relatively few hands. The 2008 food price crisis illustrated both the volatility and vulnerability built into the current global food system; at the height of the crisis, the number of hungry people on the planet climbed to over 1 billion. At the same time, there are serious ecological consequences that stem from an increasingly industrial model of agriculture that has spread worldwide. This book aims to contribute to a fuller understanding of the forces that…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is the coauthor of Paths to a Green World (MIT Press, 2005).



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


List of Figures and Tables



Unpacking the World Food Economy



The Rise of a Global Industrial Food Market



Uneven Agricultural Trade Rules



Transnational Corporations



Financialization of Food



Can the World Food Economy Be Transformed?


Notes


Selected Readings


Index