The global food system : issues and solutions / William D. Schanbacher, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schanbacher, William D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food sovereignty.

Food security.

Physical Description:

xxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2014]

Contents:

Food sovereignty: some initial thoughts and questions for research / Annette Aurelie Desmarais

Justifying the human right to food in the food sovereignty framework / William D. Schanbacher

Agribusiness concentration: globalization, market power, and resistance / Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, and Philip H. Howard

Racism, gender discrimination, and food chain workers in the United States / Joann Lo

Lessons from the food system: Borkian paradoxes, plutocracy, and the rise of Walmart's buyer power / R. Dennis Olson

The pursuit of happiness: at the intersection of food, performance, and consumer identity / Sara B. Dykins Callahan

Battles for the soul of organic: the grassroots versus the suits / Grace Gershuny

Where's the beef?: Looking for food in religion and ecology / Dell deChant

The GMO threat to food sovereignty: science, resistance and transformation / Brian Tokar

Agroecology and social movements / Peter M. Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez-Torres

Contested land politics and trajectories of agrarian change within an emergent world

Agro-commodity regime: insights from the BRICS and the periphery / Ben McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Chunyu Wang, and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.

The importance of process in achieving food sovereignty: participatory action research (PAR) in coffeelands of Nicaragua / Heather R. Putnam and J. Christopher Brown.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781440829116

144082911X

OCLC:

863192052

Publisher Number:

40023951172