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Title The global food system : issues and solutions / William D. Schanbacher, editor.

Publication Information Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014.
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Description xxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Food sovereignty: some initial thoughts and questions for research / Annette Aurelie Desmarais -- Justifying the human right to food in the food sovereignty framework / William D. Schanbacher -- Agribusiness concentration: globalization, market power, and resistance / Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, and Philip H. Howard -- Racism, gender discrimination, and food chain workers in the United States / Joann Lo -- Lessons from the food system: Borkian paradoxes, plutocracy, and the rise of Walmart's buyer power / R. Dennis Olson -- The pursuit of happiness: at the intersection of food, performance, and consumer identity / Sara B. Dykins Callahan -- Battles for the soul of organic: the grassroots versus the suits / Grace Gershuny -- Where's the beef?: Looking for food in religion and ecology / Dell deChant -- The GMO threat to food sovereignty: science, resistance and transformation / Brian Tokar -- Agroecology and social movements / Peter M. Rosset and Maria Elena Martinez-Torres -- 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. -- The importance of process in achieving food sovereignty: participatory action research (PAR) in coffeelands of Nicaragua / Heather R. Putnam and J. Christopher Brown.
Subject Food sovereignty.
Food security.
Added Author Schanbacher, William D.
ISBN 9781440829116
144082911X