Food /
Clapp, Jennifer,1963-author.
"We all need food to survive, and 40 percent of the world's population relies on agriculture for a livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. This fully revised and expanded 3rd 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. Resistance movements are making important progress in establishing alternative food systems, but, as Clapp's penetrating analysis ably shows, significant challenges remain."--book cover
"New edition of the leading introduction to the global food trade"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unpacking the World Food Economy -- The Rise of a Global Industrial Food Market -- Expanding Food Trade -- Growing Corporate Control -- The Financialization of Food -- Justice and Sustainability in the World Food Economy?
"We all need food to survive, and 40 percent of the world's population relies on agriculture for a livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. This fully revised and expanded 3rd 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. Resistance movements are making important progress in establishing alternative food systems, but, as Clapp's penetrating analysis ably shows, significant challenges remain."--book cover
"New edition of the leading introduction to the global food trade"--
Food supply
Agriculture
Agricultural industries.
Agricultural industries.
Agriculture
Food supply
Food