Robert Paarlberg

Food Politics

What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a lively and easy-to-navigate, question-and-answer format, Food Politics carefully examines and explains the most important issues on today's global food landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9780199322381
• ISBN-10: 0199322384
• Artikelnr.: 37597880

Autorenporträt

Robert Paarlberg is Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. A leading authority on food policy, his books include Starved for Science, Policy Reform in American Agriculture, and Fixing Farm Trade.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to Second Edition
Chapter One: An Overview of Food Politics
Chapter Two: Food Production and Population Growth
Chapter Three: The Politics of High Food Prices
Chapter Four: The Politics of Chronic Hunger and Famine
Chapter Five: Food Aid And Agricultural Development Assistance
Chapter Six: The Green Revolution Controversy
Chapter Seven: The Politics of Obesity
Chapter Eight: The Politics of Farm Subsidies and Trade
Chapter Nine: Farming, the Environment, Climate Change, and Water
Chapter Ten: Livestock, Meat, and Fish
Chapter Eleven: Agribusiness, Supermarkets, and Fast Food
Chapter Twelve: Organic and Local Food
Chapter Thirteen: Food Safety and Genetically Engineered Food
Chapter Fourteen: Who Governs the World Food System?
Chapter Fifteen: The Future of Food Politics
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index