The global food system
Subtitle: issues and solutions
By: William D. Schanbacher, editor
Publisher: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC; Praeger
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781440829116; 9781440829123
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Food sovereignty; Food security
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food sovereignty: some initial thoughts and questions for research / Annette Aurelie Desmarais; title: Justifying the human right to food in the food sovereignty framework / William D. Schanbacher; title: Agribusiness concentration: globalization, market power, and resistance / Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, and Philip H. Howard; title: Racism, gender discrimination, and food chain workers in the United States / Joann Lo; title: Lessons from the food system: Borkian paradoxes, plutocracy, and the rise of Walmart's buyer power / R. Dennis Olson; title: The pursuit of happiness: at the intersection of food, performance, and consumer identity / Sara B. Dykins Callahan; title: Battles for the soul of organic: the grassroots versus the suits / Grace Gershuny; title: Where's the beef?: Looking for food in religion and ecology / Dell deChant; title: The GMO threat to food sovereignty: science, resistance and transformation / Brian Tokar; title: Agroecology and social movements / Peter M. Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez-Torres; title: Contested land politics and trajectories of agrarian change within an emergent world; title: Agro-commodity regime: insights from the BRICS and the periphery / Ben McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Chunyu Wang, and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.; title: The importance of process in achieving food sovereignty: participatory action research (PAR) in coffeelands of Nicaragua / Heather R. Putnam and J. Christopher Brown.