Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question - Softcover

Akram-Lodhi, A.Haroon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565496434 ISBN 13: 9781565496439

Verlag: Lynne Rienner, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Book by AkramLodhi A Haroon

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If you want to understand how the contemporary global food crisis came about or how an alternative, more just, egalitarian and ecological agrarian system can be developed, then this is the book for you. The book reveals a profound understanding of the workings of the global food system and makes you hungry for change. Read it!

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Hunger and obesity sit side by side in the world today because a food system dominated by wealth, markets and profits allows those with money to obtain above and beyond their needs while those without cannot get the fundamentals of life. The result is a growing polarisation of global agriculture, between the haves and an ever-increasing number of have-nots. In Hungry for Change, the author explains how capitalism was introduced into farming and how it transformed the terms and conditions by which farmers produce the food we eat.Written in accessible language and incorporating accounts from farmers and agricultural workers, Hungry for Change explains how the creation, structure and operation of the capitalist world food system is marginalising family farmers, small-scale peasant farmers and landless rural workers as it entrenches us all in a global subsistence crisis. Building upon the idea of food sovereignty, Akram-Lodhi develops a set of solutions that together can resolve the current crisis of the world food system.

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• Verlag: Lynne Rienner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1565496434
• ISBN 13: 9781565496439
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200