The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of FarmingThe Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat. The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing countries remain impoverished. Food miles, mounting toxicity and the 'ecological hoofprint' of livestock mean that the global food economy rests on increasingly shaky environmental foundations. This book looks at how such a system came about, and how it is being enforced by the WTO. Ultimately, Weis considers how we can find a way of building socially just, ecologically rational and humane food economies. |
Contents
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The temperate grainlivestock complex | 47 |
From colonialism to global market integration in the South | 89 |
Entrenching an uneven playing field the multilateral regulation of agriculture | 128 |
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agrarian agricultural systems agricultural trade agro-chemicals agro-export agro-food TNCs agro-input TNCs agro-subsidies agro-TNCs billion Brazil Cairns Group Cancún capital cent cereal Chapter chickens China colonialism to global commodity competitive consumption corporate costs crops cultural developing countries developing world diets disciplines Doha Round domestic ecological enhanced environmental especially expanding export factory farms farm animal feed fertilizer food import food miles food security future of farming global food economy global market integration GMOs governments grain Green Revolution growing growth human imbalances increasing India industrial agriculture industrial farming inputs labour land reform landscapes levels livestock production maize major meat monocultures multilateral negotiations Nierenberg 2005 playing field Four policies population pressures programmes rich countries rising Rosset roughly rural scale sectors seeds slaughter small farmers small number social subsidy regimes surpluses tariff technological tion trade liberalization transformation tropical urban Uruguay Round World Bank WTO's