Food systems failure : the global food crisis and the future of agriculture / edited by Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock, Hugh Campbell
- Published:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 236 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Rosin, Christopher J. (Christopher John), Campbell, Hugh, 1964-, and Stock, Paul V.
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: shocking the global food system / Hugh Campbell -- pt. 1 The contradictions of the `feed the world' ideology -- 2.Agriculture and food systems: our current challenge / Jules Pretty -- 3.Let us eat cake? Historically reframing the problem of world hunger and its purported solutions / Hugh Campbell -- 4.Trading into hunger? Trading out of hunger? International food trade and the debate on food security / Bill Pritchard -- 5.Biofuels and the financialization of the global food system / Philip Mcmichael -- 6.The right to food: a right for everyone / Claire Mahon -- 7.Plentiful food? Nutritious food? / Jane Dixon -- 8.A Utopian perspective on global food security / Michael Carolan -- pt. 2 The condition of neoliberal agriculture -- 9.Climate change and the resilience of commodity food production in Australia / Naomi Hansar -- 10.Food security and the de-agrarianization of the Indonesian economy / Bustanul Arifin -- 11.`Soyization' and food security in South America / Doug Hill -- 12.Negotiating organic, fair and ethical trade: lessons from smallholders in Uganda and Kenya / Kristen Lyons -- 13.Food for thought? Linking urban agriculture and local food production for food security and development in the South Pacific / Alec Thornton -- 14.Conclusions: Towards a more just and flexible global food system / Hugh Campbell.
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- ISBN:
- 9781849712293 (hardback : alk. paper)
1849712298 (hardback : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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