The Global Food Economy
The Battle for the Future of Farming
Seiten
2007
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84277-795-4 (ISBN)
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84277-795-4 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive guide to the issues affecting world food
production.
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing countries remain impoverished. Food miles, mounting toxicity and the 'ecological hoofprint' of livestock mean that the global food economy rests on increasingly shaky environmental foundations.
This book looks at how such a system came about, and how it is being enforced by the WTO. Ultimately, Weis considers how we can find a way of building socially just, ecologically rational and humane food economies.
production.
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing countries remain impoverished. Food miles, mounting toxicity and the 'ecological hoofprint' of livestock mean that the global food economy rests on increasingly shaky environmental foundations.
This book looks at how such a system came about, and how it is being enforced by the WTO. Ultimately, Weis considers how we can find a way of building socially just, ecologically rational and humane food economies.
Tony Weis is an associate professor in geography at the University of Western Ontario. He is also the author of The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock (Zed 2013), as well as co-editor of A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice (2014) and Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty (2014).
Preface
1. The Global Food Economy: Contradictions and Crises
2. The Temperate Grain-Livestock Complex
3. From Colonialism to Global Market Integration in the South
4. Entrenching an Uneven Playing Field: The Multilateral Regulation of Agriculture
5. The Battle for the Future of Farming
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.6.2007 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84277-795-5 / 1842777955 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84277-795-4 / 9781842777954 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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