"Over a century, the Canadian prairies went from being the breadbasket of the world to a grain-growing region in a vast, global agri-food system. Magnan traces the causes and consequences of this evolution, from the first transatlantic shipments of wheat to the controversial dis…
Geopolítica de los alimentos: intereses, actores y posibles repuestas del Cono …
by Moneta, Carlos Juan, Albertoni, Nicolás, Martínez Arteaga, Manuel, Illescas, Nelson, Perini, Sofía Clara, Rodríguez, Agustín Tejeda, Rosales, Osvaldo, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Polski, Daniel, Pena, Celina, Elverdin, Pablo, Nogués, Julio J., Peña, Felix
Introducción / Martín Piñeiro -- ¿Por qué un análisis de la "geopolitica de los alimentos"? / Guillertno Valles Galmés -- Paises que son los principales actores económicos y politicos: sus intereses y posicionamientos -- La geopolitica de los alimentos desde la mirada de la poli…
Food security and sociopolitical stability
"Global food price spikes in 2008 and again in 2011 coincided with a surge of political unrest in low- and middle-income countries. Angry consumers took to the streets in scores of nations. In some places, food riots turned violent, pressuring governments and in a few cases cont…
Prosperity so easily obtained -- Passing into economic darkness -- An uncertain source of wealth -- To overcome sugar -- To tremble in fear -- To return to what was before "plus ça change" "In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a stapl…
This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of …
This book presents a descriptive analysis of the political economy of the European Community, the U.S. and Canada. It describes the structural changes and the crises in agriculture and focuses on impact of GATT on agricultural policy and trade in the post-Second World War era.