The Food Question: Profits Versus People

ISBN-13: 9781138166035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Henry Bernstein; Maureen Mackintosh; Charlotte Martin

Opis

Analyses the politics and economics of the production, distribution and consumption of food, showing what needs to be changed to eliminate the current stark inequities.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Henry Bernstein