Food

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4177-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clapp, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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