The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015--income poverty hunger disease exclusion lack of infrastructure and shelter-while promoting gender equali…
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…
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…
