The food wars

The food wars

by Bello, Walden F.

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Walden Bello traces the evolution of the violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices, that highlighted a flaw in the modern system of world trade. This book speaks out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The food wars / Walden Bello.

Summary

Walden Bello traces the evolution of the violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices, that highlighted a flaw in the modern system of world trade. This book speaks out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Verso
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 176 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781844673315, 1844673316
  • oclc:ocn319211002
  • LC Classification:HD9000.6
  • Dewey Decimal:338.19

Table of Contents

Capitalism versus the peasant -- Eroding the Mexican countryside -- Creating a rice crisis in the Philippines -- Destroying African agriculture -- Peasants, the Party, and agrarian crisis in China -- Agrofuels and food industry -- Resistance and the road to the future.

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Subjects

Aliments -- Approvisionnement ENTWICKLUNGSLÄNDER Food supply Food supply -- International cooperation Lebensmittel Lebensmittelversorgung Nahrungsmittelpreis Nahrungsmittelversorgung Preis Welt

Writers

Bello, Walden F.

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