Food insecurity : a matter of justice, sovereignty, and survival / edited by Tamar Mayer and Molly D. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Molly D., editor.

Mayer, Tamar, editor.

Series:

Critical food studies.

Critical food studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security.

Food supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2020.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering. Despite global efforts to end hunger, it persists and has even increased in some regions. This book provides interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the manifestations of food insecurity, with case studies illustrating how people coped with violations of their rights during the war-time deprivation in France; the neoliberal incursions on food supply in Turkey, Greece, and Nicaragua; as well as the consequences of radioactive contamination of farmland in Japan. This edited collection adopts an analytical approach to understanding food insecurity by examining how the historical and political situations in different countries have resulted in an unfolding dialectic of food insecurity and resistance, with the most marginalized people--immigrants, those in refugee camps, poor peasants, and so forth--consistently suffering the worst effects, yet still maintaining agency to fight back. The book tackles food insecurity on a local as well as a global scale and will thus be useful for a broad range of audiences, including students, scholars, and the general public interested in studying food crises, globalization, and current global issues.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Food insecurity in context

Justice and survival

Food sovereignty and survival

Causes and consequences of food insecurity

Climate change

Increased poverty

Structural adjustment and austerity

Responses to food insecurity

Policies to increase food security

Popular resistance and adaptation

Food insecurity and national identity

The power of memory

References

2 Causes and consequences of njaa (hunger) in the household: Food security and intimate partner violence within an ...

Introduction

Field site and methods

Violence within Bangla's households

Sources of intra-household conflict and abuse

Pesa (money)

Conflict, abuse, and food insecurity

Refusing to cook

Refusing to eat

Refusing to give money

Running away

Secret savings

Infidelity

Cycles of conflict, abuse, and food insecurity, and the impact of women-centered intervention

Conclusion

3 Food is a gift of the earth: Food sovereignty among migrant farmworkers in rural Vermont

Introduction: conducting food-security research in Vermont

Encerrado: migrant farmworker (in)visibility in Vermont's landscape

Reconsidering and reconciling food (in)security

Food access strategies in the northern borderlands

Sending grocery lists

Mobile tiendas (stores)

Government programs

Huertas gardening project

Tomás's garden

4 Food insecurity and the struggle for food sovereignty in the time of structural adjustment: The case of Greece

Food insecurity in the Greek crisis

Rebuilding the production and distribution of food in crisis-ridden Greece and food sovereignty.

Structural adjustment and the state

Food sovereignty without sovereignty?

Notes

5 Food insecurity in the age of neoliberalism in Turkey and its neighbors

A troubled region

Declining agricultural production capacities in Turkey

Food accessibility and the poverty rate

Food accessibility and adaptation behavior

6 Links between land access, land use, and hunger in today's neoliberal Nicaragua

Background: national conditions affecting small-scale production

Food security/insecurity and agricultural production

Land tenure

Study region and methods

Findings

Land tenure and access

Agricultural production

Food security/insecurity

Two distinct communities, similar struggles for land and food security

A common struggle to access land and produce food

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

7 Global water grabbing and food insecurity

The global water grabbing syndrome

Assessing the likelihood of LSLAs-related (blue) water grabs

Identifying the potential impact of water grabbing on food security

Discussion and conclusions

8 Food security in a premodern agrarian empire: The case of Rome

The dimensions of the Roman Empire

Food and society in the Roman Empire

Climate, resilience, and crisis

9 The transformation of famine relief regimes in modern China

Older Chinese models of relief

The North China Famine of 1876-79

The North China Famine of 1920-21

The Northwest Famine of 1928-30

The "Great Leap" Famine of 1958-62

References.

10 Bitter greens and sweet potatoes: Food practice and memories of hunger in rural China

Memory, food, and calendrical rituals

Food as embodied memory

Kumai and other ordinary vegetables

Sweet potatoes

Congee versus rice

11 "Groveling for lentils": The culture and memory of food scarcity in occupied France

Food scarcity: causes and consequences

Living with hunger

Public perceptions

From restlessness to protest

Minds and bodies, individual and collective

12 Coping with food safety risks: Information sources and responses by residents in Japan in the aftermath of the ...

Research methods

Review of literature

Reasons for food safety concerns

Safety concerns and the use of information

Governmental strategies

Findings and discussion

The complexity of changing food-consumption behaviors

Information sources used for deciding food purchases

13 Framing food insecurity and the GMO "problem" in transatlantic trade

Regulatory evolution in the United States and European Union

The GMO "problem" in international trade negotiations

Non-technical obstacles to policy convergence

Free trade and food security

Index.

ISBN:

9780429434082

0429434081

9780429783920

0429783922

OCLC:

1402111564