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    The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming

    By Tony Weis

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    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

    The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing countries remain impoverished. Food miles, mounting toxicity and the 'ecological hoofprint' of livestock mean that the global food economy rests on increasingly shaky environmental foundations.

    This book looks at how such a system came about, and how it is being enforced by the WTO. Ultimately, Weis considers how we can find a way of building socially just, ecologically rational and humane food economies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZed Books
    Release dateDec 8, 2008
    ISBN9781848136885
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    The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming
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    Tony Weis

    Tony Weis (Ph.D., Queen’s University) is Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research is principally interested in examining how global agrarian change is interacting with the spatial marginality of small farmers, related social and environmental problems, and struggles for land reform. He has published in various journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Capital and Class, the Journal of Agrarian Change, Capital, Nature, Socialism, and Global Environmental Change.

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      'I hadn't imagined that a small book could do justice to so large a topic before I read Tony Weis on the global food economy - it's necessary and terrific: intellectually rigorous and informative, full of insight and provocation.' - Henry Bernstein, SOAS'A searing indictment of big agri-businesses ... A sane and passionate plea to reorder the global food economy ... The book ... should find a place in our bookshelf.' - Economic and Political Weekly'A sweeping overview of the contradictions and crises in the global food economy.' - Food Ethics