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The Global Food Economy : The Battle for the Future of Farming by Anthony John Weis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Global Food Economy : The Battle for the Future of Farming about?

This book sets out some answers to the question: how can we build an ecologically sustainable and humane system of food production and distribution? The modern food economy is a paradox. Surplus 'food mountains' sit alongside global malnutrition and the developed world subsidizes its own agriculture while pressurizing the developing world to liberalize at all costs. Export competition is increasingly aggressive whilst the reliance on imports in many countries has worrying implications for food security. Family farms go out of business and dispossessed peasant farmers are driven into urban slums. The WTO's uneven application of neoliberal economics to food production is relatively new, and the consequences of mounting deficits, rising 'food miles', and social upheaval, are untested but ominous. </div>

Who reads The Global Food Economy : The Battle for the Future of Farming?

Author

Anthony John Weis

Publisher

Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786992437

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, Nature

Rating

3.83 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14