Food (Resources) - Softcover

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Clapp, Jennifer

 
9781509541775: Food (Resources)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509541772 ISBN 13: 9781509541775
Verlag: Polity, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509541772
ISBN 13 
9781509541775
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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