1st Edition
Food Insecurity A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Food insecurity in context
MOLLY D. ANDERSON AND TAMAR MAYER
2 Causes and consequences of njaa (hunger) in the household: food security and intimate partner violence within an informal settlement in Mombasa, Kenya
ADAM GILBERTSON
3 Food is a gift of the earth: food sovereignty among migrant farmworkers in rural Vermont
JESSIE MAZAR AND TERESA MARES
4 Food insecurity and the struggle for food sovereignty in the time of structural adjustment: the case of Greece
CHARALAMPOS KONSTANTINIDIS
5 Food insecurity in the age of neoliberalism in Turkey and its neighbors
MURAT ÖZTÜRK, FAIK GÜR, AND JOOST JONGERDEN
6 Links between land access, land use, and hunger in today’s neoliberal Nicaragua
BIRGIT SCHMOOK, LINDSEY CARTE, CLAUDIA RADEL, AND SANTANA NAVARRO OLMEDO
7 Global water grabbing and food insecurity
JAMPEL DELL’ANGELO, MARIA CRISTINA RULLI, AND PAOLO D’ODORICO
8 Food security in a premodern agrarian empire: the case of Rome
KYLE HARPER
9 The transformation of famine relief regimes in modern China
PIERRE FULLER
10 Bitter greens and sweet potatoes: food practice and memories of hunger in rural China
ELLEN OXFELD
11 "Groveling for lentils": the culture and memory of food scarcity in occupied France
PAULA SCHWARTZ
12 Coping with food safety risks: information sources and responses by residents in Japan in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident
TOMIKO YAMAGUCHI AND JOO-YOUNG JUNG
13 Framing food insecurity and the GMO "problem" in transatlantic trade
PATRICIA A. STAPLETON
Index
Biography
Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College, Vermont, where she is the director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. She is the editor or co-editor of five books that focus on various dimensions of international and global crises.
Molly D. Anderson is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies and Academic Director of Food Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont. She works on food system transformations toward greater resilience and sustainability, the right to food, and the intersections of civil society and academic perspectives.
