The great climate robbery : how the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Environmental aspects.

Food supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : New Internationalist : Genetic Resources Action International, 2016.

Summary:

How food and agribusiness corporations are causing climate change and what can be done to turn the system around.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Food and climate change: the forgotten link

1.1: How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis

1.2: Food sovereignty: five steps to cool the planet and feed its people

1.3: The Exxons of agriculture

1.4: How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change

1.5: Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor

2. Hungry for land

2.1: The solution to climate change is in our lands

2.2: Family farm stories are not the fairy tales we're being told

2.3: Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than one-quarter of all farmland

2.4: Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab

2.5: Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands

2.6: The land grabbers of the Nacala Corridor

2.7: Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap

3. The struggle for seeds

3.1: Seed laws that criminalize farmers

3.2: Trade deals and farmers' seeds

3.3: GMOs: Feeding or fooling the world?

3.4: Yvapuruvu Declaration: seed laws - resisting dispossession

4. Controlling the food system

4.1: Corporations replace peasants in China's new food security agenda

4.2: Defending people's milk in India

4.3: Food sovereignty for sale: supermarkets and dwindling people's power over food and farming in Asia

4.4: How does the Gates Foundation spend its money to feed the world?

4.5: Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil

4.6: Free trade and Mexico's junk food epidemic.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78026-340-6

OCLC:

951222143