Food by David Marshall

Food by David Marshall

We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world s population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy over the past decade - including the food price crisis, intensification of land grabs, and clashes over rules governing global food trade - has highlighted both the volatility and vulnerability inherent in the way we currently organize this vital sector. At the same time, contrasting extremes of both undernourishment and overnourishment affect a significant proportion of humanity. There is also growing awareness of the serious ecological consequences that stem from industrial models of agriculture that are increasingly spreading worldwide.

The revised and updated second edition of this popular book aims to contribute to a fuller understanding of the forces that influence and shape the current global food system. In it, Jennifer Clapp explores how the rise of industrial agriculture, corporate control, inequitable agricultural trade rules, and the financialization of food have each enabled powerful actors to gain fundamental influence on the practices that dominate the world food economy. A variety of movements have emerged that are making important progress in establishing alternative food systems but, as Clapp s penetrating analysis ably shows, significant challenges remain.

David Marshall QPM MSc recently retired from the Metropolitan Police with over 30 year's service, including postings on the International and Organised Crime Branch and Paedophile Unit at New Scotland Yard. For the last nine years as DCI he was head of the Specialist Crime Directorates Child Abuse
Investigation Command's major investigation team responsible for the investigation of complex abuse, child homicides and suspicious deaths in London. In this position he had experience of over fifty child homicides and suspicious deaths. He regularly lectures on the NPIA Investigating Sudden
Childhood Death Programme, is a faculty member on the University of Warwick Advanced Course in the Management of Unexpected Childhood Death and was a UK representative on the Interpol Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. He has contributed to national police guidance, written a number of
published articles and presented on numerous conferences and courses in the UK and abroad.

Contributors:

Russell J Wate QPM, a Director of RJW Associates Ltd and former Head of Investigations Directorate for the Cambridgeshire Constabulary, UK

Professor Tony Risdon, Consultant Histopathologist, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Dr. Martin Weber, Consultant in Paediatric Pathology, Department of Histopathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK

Dr. Lizzy Dierckx, Consultant Community Paediatrician and Lead for the Rapid Response Team investigating Sudden Unexpected Child Death, Greater Manchester, UK

Nadine Tilbury, Former Senior Crown Prosecutor and Senior Policy Advisor for the CPS and CPS Policy lead on Safeguarding Children Tony Osborne, NPIA's National Advisor for Suspicious Missing Person Cases

Chloe Hawkins, Adviser for the National Injuries Database Professor Neil Sebire, Professor of Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London