Hungry for change : farmers, food justice and the agrarian question / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade.

Food supply.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Social aspects.

Farms, Small.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Kumarian Press, [2013]

Summary:

Hunger and obesity sit side by side in the world today--the result, argues A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, of the growing polarization of global agriculture between the haves and an ever-increasing number of have-nots. In Hungry for Change, Akram-Lodhi explains how the creation, structure, and operation of the capitalist world food system is marginalizing small-scale farmers and landless rural workers as it entrenches a global subsistence crisis. But he also shows how, on the margins of that crisis, an alternative future is not only being envisioned, but is being built by the members of social movements.

Contents:

The thin and the fat: food entitlements in the twenty-first century

Qing Youzi understands capitalism: money, markets and the agrarian question

Why Pervaiz Qazi went hungry: capitalism and the origins of a global food regime

"Tierra y libertad": peasant resistence and the quest for land reform

The father, the son and the holy ghost: make unlikely revolutionaries peasants and the green revolution

A few grains of rice: the farm problem and the creation of food import dependence

Adi Serevi buys some fish: supermarkets, peasants and the contraditions of the contemporary food regime

"Red in tooth and claw": capitalist agriculture versus food sovereignty

What is to be done?: solving the global subsistence crisis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781565496453

1565496450

OCLC:

1247657044