William D. Schanbacher

The Politics of Food (eBook, ePUB)

The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition.

The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty argues that our current global food system constitutes a massive violation of human rights.

In this impassioned, well-researched book, William Schanbacher makes the case that the food security model for combating global hunger-driven by the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other organizations-is a failure, too dependent on trade and too reliant on international agribusiness. Instead, the emerging model of food sovereignty-helping local farmers and businesses produce better quality food-is the more effective and responsible approach. Through numerous case studies, the book examines critical issues of global trade and corporate monopolization of the food industry, while examining the emerging social justice movements that seek to make food sovereignty the model for battling hunger.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216129929
• Artikelnr.: 70037391

Autorenporträt

William D. Schanbacher is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, USA. He is author of The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Globalization
Development
Food Security
and the Emergence of a Global Food Regime 2 The Underside of Development 3 Food Sovereignty as an Alternative 4 Human Rights
Human Responsibilities
and the Capabilities Approach 5 Ethical Analysis of Food Sovereignty and the Ethics of Globalization Notes Bibliography Index