Food Rebellions! by Eric Holt-Gimenez
Food Rebellions takes a deep look at the world food crisis and its impact on the Global South and under-served communities in the industrial North. While most governments and multilateral organisations offer short-term solutions based on proximate causes, authors Eric Holt-Gim nez and Raj Patel unpack the planet's environmentally and economically vulnerable food systems to reveal the root causes of the crisis. By tracking the political and economic evolution of the industrial agri-foods complex, Food Rebellions shows us how the steady erosion of local and national control over their food systems has made African nations dependent on a volatile global market and subject to the short-term interests of a handful of transnational agri-food monopolies. Food Rebellions is a powerful handbook for those seeking to understand the causes and potential solutions to the current food crisis now affecting nearly half of the world's people. Why are food riots are occurring around the world in a time of record harvests? What are the real impacts of agrofuels and genetically engineered crops? Whose interests are being advanced by Africa's 'new' Green Revolution? And why are the thousands of farmer-led 'islands of sustainability' flowering across the landscapes of the global South being ignored by policy-makers? What are hundreds of peasant farm organisations, civil society organisations, and concerned researchers doing about the crisis? Finally, what can you do? Food Rebellions suggests that to solve the food crisis, we must change the global food system - from the bottom up and from the top down. On one hand, farmers utilising sustainable approaches to production need to be supported, and farmer-to-farmer agroecological knowledge must be spread. At the same time, food and farm advocates need to work in local, national and international policy arenas to open dialogue, demand transparency and change the 'rules' currently holding back agroecological alternatives. The book frames the current food crisis as a unique opportunity to develop productive local food systems as engines for sustainable economic development. Hunger and poverty, the authors insist, can be eliminated by democratising food systems and respecting people's right to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food and to food-producing resources - in short, by advancing food sovereignty.Raj Patel is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a professor in the university's nutrition department and a Research Associate at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, The Value of Nothing, and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Items, as well as co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. He is a prominent thinker and organizer around the Green New Deal and is a James Beard Leadership Award winner. He is also working on a film about the global food system and is a James Beard Leadership Award winner. He is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and has provided advice to governments around the world on the causes and solutions to sustainability challenges.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906387303 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906387303 |
| Title | Food Rebellions! |
| Author | Eric Holt-Gimenez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pambazuka Press |
| Year published | 2009-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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