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The Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society
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The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in soci…
Food security and sociopolitical stability
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"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…
Food security and sociopolitical stability
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We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means "the peasant's way"), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger uses r…
Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future
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This timely and provocative collection combines for the first time the best articles from those groundbreaking earlier volumes [Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future], featuring leading thinkers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappe, an…
This timely and provocative collection combines for the first time the best articles from those groundbreaking earlier volumes [Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future], featuring leading thinkers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappe, an…
This timely and provocative collection combines for the first time the best articles from those groundbreaking earlier volumes [Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future], featuring leading thinkers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappe, an…
Rice biotechnology: improving yield, stress tolerance, and grain qual…
by Chadwick, Derek, Goode, Jamie, Novartis Foundation, Symposium on Rice Biotechnology--Improving Yield, Stress Tolerance, and Grain Quality, (2000, Laguna, Philippines), International Rice Research Institute
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Rice biotechnology: improving yield, stress tolerance, and grain qual…
by Chadwick, Derek, Goode, Jamie, Novartis Foundation, Symposium on Rice Biotechnology--Improving Yield, Stress Tolerance, and Grain Quality, Laguna, Philippines), International Rice Research Institute
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Rice is the most important food crop for half the world's population. Over the last three decades, the improvement in human nutrition and health in Asia has largely been attributable to a relatively stable and affordable rice supply. The challenge to produce enough rice for the …
This book offers a critical analysis of how the West created the global food crisis. The hike in global food prices has pushed hundreds of millions more people into poverty, and sparked riots and protests in the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Walden Bello, the leading wri…