stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system
¿Cómo es posible que coincida con una epidemia de obesidad que afecta en especial a los pobres? Desde las semillas hasta el supermercado, desde los oligopolios hasta la Organización Mundial del Comercio, …
«One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.»–Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese–both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation, traveling from the «green deserts» of Brazil and protester-packed streets of South Korea to bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India. What he uncovers is shocking–the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet he also finds hope–in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system.
From seed to store to plate, Stuffed and Starved explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
RAJ PATEL, policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he’s also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them.
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 10/07/2008
- Plaza de edición: LONDON
- Año de edición: 2008
- ISBN: 9781933633497
- Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTION
Este libro ha sido escrito y pretenece a Raj Patel
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India’s wrecked paddy-fields and Africa’s bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor-packed streets of South Korea.What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa.Yet he also found great cause for hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable and joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
