Hungry For Trade

Author : John Madeley
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856498654
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry for Trade written by John Madeley and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Madeley considers whether free trade in food will help or hinder the abolition of hunger and whether it will chiefly benefit transnational corporations to the detriment of small farmers in the countries of the southern hemisphere.

Author : John Madeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141005782
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry for Trade written by John Madeley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Trade Organization(WTO) meeting in Seattle in November 1999 challenged the view that trade liberalization would necessarily benefit all. On the contrary, its spectacular failure showed what has been the experience of the late twentieth century. While most have gained from the benefit of free trade, the most vulnerable members of the global society, the poorest, 800 million hungry people, have lost. Judged by the criterion of assistance to the needy, the existing international trade system is failing. In this book, the author puts forward many ideas and proposals made by non-governmental organizations who work alongside the hungry to examine various issues around the fundamental question: will free trade benefit transnational corporations or the millions who are currently malnourished? Drawing upon the experience of countries of the South, including India, it shows how crucial is the issue of food security. This book is a clarion call to remove our ideological blinkers and think afresh. Its aim is to contribute to shaping a food and trade agenda that does justice to all of humanity.

Author : James Larry Brown
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Hungry in America written by James Larry Brown and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shameful story of the over 20 million people who are regularly hungry in America and how they are forced to live.

Author : Faith d' Aluisio
Publisher : Material World
ISBN 13 : 9781580088695
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry Planet written by Faith d' Aluisio and published by Material World. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of what families around the world eat by featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries with a week's supply of food.

Author : Howard G Buffett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451687869
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 Chances written by Howard G Buffett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892929
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving the Atocha Station written by Ben Lerner and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.

Author : Geoff Tansey
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 9781853836039
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meat Business written by Geoff Tansey and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health, the welfare of animals and the methods of farming, and the quality of the environment, go hand-in-hand. This theme continues along the lines that the present system is harmful to them all and to our ability to generate enough good food for the whole world. The contributors to the volume offer alternatives - for more humane and moderate methods of farming which produce enough nourishing food without damaging the environment it depends on.

Author : Robert Coles
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353248
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Hungry in America written by Robert Coles and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South showcased in Still Hungry in America still resonates today. The work was created to complement a July 1967 U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty hearings on hunger in America. At those hearings, witnesses documented examples of deprivation afflicting hundreds of thousands of American families. The most powerful testimonies came from the authors of this profoundly disturbing and important book. Al Clayton’s sensitive camerawork enabled the subcommittee members to see the agonizing results of insufficient food and improper diet, rendered graphically in stunted, weakened and fractured bones, dry, shrunken, and ulcerated skin, wasting muscles, and bloated legs and abdomens. Physician and child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who had worked with these populations for many years, described with fierce clarity the medical and psychological effects of hunger. Coles’s powerful narrative, reinforced by heartbreaking interviews with impoverished people and accompanied by 101 photographs taken by Clayton in Appalachia, rural Mississippi, and Atlanta, Georgia, convey the plight of the millions of hungry citizens in the most affluent nation on earth. A new foreword by historian Thomas J. Ward Jr. analyzes food insecurity among today’s rural and urban poor and frames the current crisis in the American diet not as a scarcity of food but as an overabundance of empty calories leading to obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Author : Eve Turow-Paul
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 195066516X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry written by Eve Turow-Paul and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We wait in lines around the block for scoops of cookie dough. We photograph every meal. We visit selfie performance spaces and leave lucrative jobs to become farmers and craft brewers. Why? What are we really hungry for? In Hungry, Eve Turow-Paul provides a guided tour through the stranger corners of today's global food and lifestyle culture. How are 21st-century innovations and pressures are redefining people's needs and desires? How does "foodie" culture, along with other lifestyle trends, provide an answer to our rising rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression? Weaving together evolutionary psychology and sociology with captivating investigative reporting from around the world, Turow-Paul reveals the modern hungers—physical, spiritual, and emotional—that are driving today's top trends: • The connection between the "death" of the cereal industry and access to work email on our smartphones • How posting images of our dinners on social media both fulfills and feeds our hunger for human connection in an increasingly isolated world • The ways "diet tribes" and boutique fitness gyms substitute for organized religion • How access to round-the-clock news relates to the blowback against GMO foods • Wellness retreats, astrology, plant parenthood, and other methods of easing modern anxiety • Why "eating local" might be the key to solving not just climate change, but our current global sense of disconnection From gluten-free and Paleo diets to meal kit subscriptions, and from mukbang broadcast jockeys to craft beer, Hungry deepens our understanding of why we do what we do, and helps us find greater purpose and joy in today's technology-altered world.

Author : Sigfrido Burgos Caceres
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1857436865
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hungry Dragon written by Sigfrido Burgos Caceres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores China’s quest for energy sources, raw materials and natural resources around the world, with a specific emphasis on oil. China’s ubiquitous presence in Africa, Asia and Latin America is reshaping the world with regards to economics, politics and national security. It offers a comprehensive examination of China’s energy security strategy. The first two chapters delve into Chinese relations with energy markets and the world, and the global geopolitics of China's resource quest. This introductory section is complemented by three in-depth country case studies: Angola, Brazil and Cambodia. The two concluding chapters cover opportunities and risks to China, and examine how strategies can be developed into tangible actions. The volume also examines a number of overlapping debates regarding the varieties of capitalisms (autocratic vs. democratic), the urgent need for rebalancing as the world undergoes global financial crises and contestations to traditional powers, and the issues surrounding natural resource extraction in the context of global governance, neoliberalism and poverty traps. Key Features · Offers an in-depth analysis on the geopolitics of China's resource quest. · Assists students and scholars in understanding the Chinese model of autocratic capitalism and China’s novel ways of securing resources across three continents. · Explains China’s energy security strategy and its implications on US national security. · Explores the links between international relations and the geopolitics of scarcity.