Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849712293
,
9781849776820
Series Statement:
Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series
Content:
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population
Note:
Cover -- Food Systems Failure -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Prologue: Food security - now is the future -- 1. Introduction: shocking the global food system -- Part 1: The contradictions of the 'feed the world' ideology -- 2. Agriculture and food systems: our current challenge -- 3. Let us eat cake? Historically reframing the problem of world hunger and its purported solutions -- 4. Trading into hunger? Trading out of hunger? International food trade and the debate on food security -- 5. Biofuels and the financialization of the global food system -- 6. The right to food: a right for everyone -- 7. Plentiful food? Nutritious food? -- 8. A Utopian perspective on global food security -- Part 2: The condition of neoliberal agriculture -- 9. Climate change and the resilience of commodity food production in Australia -- 10. Food security and the de-agrarianization of the Indonesian economy -- 11. 'Soyization' and food security in South America -- 12. Negotiating organic, fair and ethical trade: lessons from smallholders in Uganda and Kenya -- 13. Food for thought? Linking urban agriculture and localfood production for food security and development in the South Pacific -- 14. Conclusions: Towards a more just and flexible global food systeM -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Rosin, Christopher Food Systems Failure Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9781849712293
Language:
English
Keywords:
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