1st Edition
Food Systems Failure The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture
Prologue: Food Security – Now is the Future
Robert Watson
1. Introduction: Shocking the Global Food System
Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock and Hugh Campbell
2. Agriculture and Food Systems: Our Current Challenge
Jules Pretty
3. Let Us Eat Cake? Historically Reframing the Problem of World Hunger and its Purported Solutions
Hugh Campbell
4. Trading into Hunger? Trading out of Hunger? International Food Trade and the Debate on Food Security
Bill Pritchard
5. Biofuels and the Financialisation of the Global Food System
Philip McMichael
6. The Right to Food: A Right for Everyone
Claire Mahon
7. Plentiful Food? Nutritious Food?
Colin Butler and Jane Dixon
8. A Utopian Perspective on Global Food Security
Paul Stock and Michael Carolan
9. Climate Change and the Resilience of Commodity Food Production in Australia
Geoffrey Lawrence, Carol Richards, Ian Gray and Naomi Hansar
10. Food Security and the De-Agrarianisation of the Indonesian Economy
Jeff Neilson and Bustanul Arifin
11. ‘Soyisation’ and Food Security in South America
Navé Wald, Christopher Rosin and Doug Hill
12. Negotiating Organic, Fair and Ethical Trade: Lessons from Smallholders in Uganda and Kenya
Kristen Lyons and Kiah Smith
13. Food for Thought? Linking Up Urban Agriculture and Local Food Production for Food Security and Development in the South Pacific
Alec Thornton
14. Conclusions: Towards a More Just and Flexible Global Food System
Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock and Hugh Campbell
Biography
Christopher Rosin is a Research Fellow and Deputy Directory with the Centre for Sustainability: Agriculture, Food, Energy, Environment (CSAFE) at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His primary research interest is in the social negotiation of sustainability in the agricultural sector.
Paul Stock is a Lecturer in Sociology and a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Centre for Sustainability: Agriculture, Food, Energy, Environment (CSAFE) at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Paul’s current research interests include the social and cultural aspects of agriculture, the intersection of morality and the environment, and the Catholic Worker movement.
Hugh Campbell is Professor of Sociology and was formerly Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His research interests include rural sociology, sustainable agriculture, neoliberalism and agrifood governance, food waste, masculinity and rural gender.
"Using a variety of approaches in their critical assessment of the global food system, these authors all share the common perspective that it requires radical change. They argue that the recent food price crises are indicative of wider problems in the global food system as a whole, and provide evidence for the urgent need to shift away from business-as-usual to avoid an increasingly dire global food situation." – Food Ethics, the magazine of the Food Ethics Council
"The collection is excellent in its identification of the key problems with the current agrifood system, and provides ample illustration of the human and environmental costs of keeping business-as-usual afloat." – Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Geography, Durham University
