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The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming

By Tony Weis

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2007
ISBN
1842777955, 9781842777954
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
776 kB (794893 bytes)
Pages
217\0
Time added
2013-12-21 16:02:22

Description

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 the consequences of mounting deficits, rising 'food miles', and social upheaval, are untested but ominous.

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