The great climate robbery
Subtitle: How the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781780263403
First sentence: Governments tend to look at problems through a very narrow lens.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Food and climate change: the forgotten link; title: 1.1: How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis; title: 1.2: Food sovereignty: five steps to cool the planet and feed its people; title: 1.3: The Exxons of agriculture; title: 1.4: How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change; title: 1.5: Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor; title: 2. Hungry for land; title: 2.1: The solution to climate change is in our lands; title: 2.2: Family farm stories are not the fairy tales we’re being told; title: 2.3: Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than one–quarter of all farmland; title: 2.4: Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab; title: 2.5: Asia’s agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers’ hands; title: 2.6: The land grabbers of the Nacala Corridor; title: 2.7: Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap; title: 3. The struggle for seeds; title: 3.1: Seed laws that criminalize farmers; title: 3.2: Trade deals and farmers’ seeds; title: 3.3: GMOs: Feeding or fooling the world?; title: 3.4: Yvapuruvu Declaration: seed laws – resisting dispossession; title: 4. Controlling the food system; title: 4.1: Corporations replace peasants in China’s new food security agenda; title: 4.2: Defending people’s milk in India; title: 4.3: Food sovereignty for sale: supermarkets and dwindling people’s power over food and farming in Asia; title: 4.4: How does the Gates Foundation spend its money to feed the world?; title: 4.5: Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil; title: 4.6: Free trade and Mexico’s junk food epidemic