| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Food wars / Walden Bello and Mara Baviera -- The world food crisis in historical perspective / Philip McMichael -- Sub-Saharan Africa's vanishing peasantries and the specter of a global food crisis / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- Origins of the food crisis in India and developing countries / Utsa Patnaik -- Free trade in agriculture: a bad idea whose time is done / Sophia Murphy -- Biofuels and the global food crisis / Brian Tokar -- The new farm owners: corporate investors and the control of overseas farmland / GRAIN -- The globalization of agribusiness and developing world food systems / John Wilkinson -- The battle for sustainable agriculture in Paraguay / April Howard -- Fixing our global food system: food sovereignty and redistributive land reform / Peter Rosset -- From food crisis to food sovereignty: the challenge of social movements / Eric Holt-Giménez -- Do increased energy costs offer opportunities for a new agriculture? / Frederick Kirschenmann -- Reducing energy inputs in the agricultural production system / David Pimentel -- Agroecology, small farms, and food sovereignty / Miguel A. Altieri -- The Venezuelan effort to build a new food and agriculture system / Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro -- Can ecological agriculture feed nine billion people? / Jules Pretty. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Nutrition policy.
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Food security.
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| Added Author |
Magdoff, Fred, 1942-
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Tokar, Brian.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9781583672266 1583672265 9781583672273 1583672273 (DLC) 2010039982 |
| ISBN |
1583673911 (electronic bk.) |
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9781583673911 (electronic bk.) |
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9781583672266 (pbk.) |
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1583672265 (pbk.) |
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9781583672273 (cloth) |
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1583672273 (cloth) |
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