Product Description

The modern food economy is a paradox. Surplus 'food mountains' sit alongside global malnutrition and the developed world subsidizes its own agriculture while pressurizing the developing world to liberalize at all costs. Export competition is increasingly aggressive whilst the reliance on imports in many countries has worrying implications for food security. Family farms go out of business and dispossessed peasant farmers are driven into urban slums. The WTO's uneven application of neoliberal economics to food production is relatively new, and the consequences of mounting deficits, rising 'food miles', and social upheaval, are untested but ominous. This book sets out some answers to the ultimate question: how can we build an ecologically sustainable and humane system of food production and distribution?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107166 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
TONY WEISS is assistant professor of geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has published in various scholarly journals, including the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Agrarian Change, Global Environmental Change, and Capital, Nature, Socialism. This is his first book.