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Title The Global Food System : Issues and Solutions.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents 1. Food sovereignty : some initial thoughts and questions for research / Annette Aurelie Desmarais -- 2. Justifying the human right to food in the food sovereignty framework / William D. Schanbacher -- 3. Agribusiness concentration : globalization, market power, and resistance / Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, and Philip H. Howard -- 4. Racism, gender discrimination, and food chain workers in the United States / Joann Lo -- 5. Lessons from the food system : Borkian paradoxes, plutocracy, and the rise of Walmart's buyer power / R. Dennis Olson -- 6. The pursuit of happiness : at the intersection of food, performance, and consumer identity / Sara B. Dykins Callahan -- 7. Battles for the soul of organic : the grassroots versus the suits / Grace Gershuny -- 8. Where's the beef? : Looking for food in religion and ecology / Dell deChant -- 9. The GMO threat to food sovereignty : science, resistance and transformation / Brian Tokar -- 10. Agroecology and social movements / Peter M. Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez-Torres -- 11. Contested land politics and trajectories of agrarian change within an emergent world -- Agro-commodity regime : insights from the BRICS and the periphery / Ben McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Chunyu Wang, and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. -- 12. The importance of process in achieving food sovereignty : participatory action research (PAR) in coffeelands of Nicaragua / Heather R. Putnam and J. Christopher Brown.
Summary This text provides an analysis of the global food system. It looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide.
Subject Food sovereignty.
Food security.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Food security. (OCoLC)fst01748879
Food sovereignty. (OCoLC)fst01745639
Added Author Schanbacher, William D.
ISBN 9781440829123 (electronic bk.)
1440829128 (electronic bk.)
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