1st Edition
The Food Question Profits Versus People
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Wasteful over-consumption (by some) in the developed countries and the continuing, in some cases worsening, hunger of millions in the Third World is a dramatic indication that food problems are urgent.
Anger is not enough and this book, which comes from the research group on Development Policy and Practice in the Open University (DPP), aims to provide some of the analytical tools needed for... Read more
Introduction ? The Origins of Third World Food Dependence ? Moving the Lever: A New Food Aid Imperialism? ? Abstract Markets and Real Needs ? Food Crisis and Gender Conflict in the African Countryside ? Taking the Part of Peasants? ? Some Economic and Political Consequences of the Green Revolution in India ? Another Awkward Class: Merchants and Agrarian Change in India ? Agrarian Crisis and Political Crisis in Mexico ? ?Structural Adjustment?, Agribusiness and Rural Women in Tanzania ? Hunger and Women?s Survival in a Bangladesh Slum ? Poverty, Purdah and Women?s Survival Strategies in Rural Bangladesh ? Peasants Under Contract: Agro-food Complexities in the Third World ? Biotechnology and Agricultural Development in the Third World ? Urban Consumption as a Route to Rural Renewal ? Further Resources on Food
Biography
Henry Bernstein
