Global Food Economy The Battle for the Future of Farming

Name: Global Food Economy The Battle for the Future of Farming
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ISBN: 9781842777954

ISBN-10: 1842777955

ISBN-13: 9781842777954

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tony Weis

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This book sets out some answers to the question: how can we build an ecologically sustainable and humane system of food production and distribution? The modern food economy is a paradox. Surplus 'food mountains' sit alongside global malnutrition and the developed world subsidizes its own agriculture while pressurizing the developing world to liberalize at all costs. Export competition is increasingly aggressive whilst the reliance on imports in many countries has worrying implications for food security. Family farms go out of business and dispossessed peasant farmers are driven into urban slums. The WTO's uneven application of neoliberal economics to food production is relatively new, and…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Tony Weiss is Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada.



Preface



The global food economy: contradictions and crises



The temperate grain-livestock complex



From colonialism to global market integration in the South



Entrenching an uneven playing field: the multilateral regulation of agriculture



The battle for the future of farming


Bibliography


Index