Eric Holt-Gimenez - Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
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Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the worlds poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Gimnez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and document the growing trend of grassroots solutions to hunger spreading around the world.
Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Gimnez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?
Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Gimnez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?
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Praise forFood Rebellions!
In this very timely book, two of the worlds most prominent critics of the global food system, Eric Holt-Gimnez and Raj Patel, dissect the causes of hunger and the food price crisis, locating them in a political economy of capitalist industrial production dominated by corporations and driven by the search for profits for the few instead of the welfare of the many. The picture that emerges is a political economy of global production that is failing badly in terms of feeding the world and is itself contributing to the spread of inequalities that promote hunger.
Walden Bello, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines
The small-scale farming systems spread widely across Africa are a social and ecological asset. As Food Rebellions! demonstrates, planting indigenous trees and using traditional farming methods enhances environmental conservation and preserves local biodiversity. At a time of economic crisis, sustainable agriculture and the economic empowerment it can generate will be key to the survival of the many African families headed by women.
Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of The Challenge for Africa (Heinemann, 2009)
The 20th century was the century of technological revolutions. This century is that of the knowledge revolution, and Eric Holt-Gimnez and Raj Patel are in its vanguard. At long last, a book which confronts the real issues: How do we reform our food systems to avoid environmental disaster? How do we recapture the production and distribution of food from the tyranny of unchecked markets? This book is vital reading for all concerned with the right to food.
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Food Rebellions! demonstrates the imperative to protect and enhance the multifaceted knowledges, practices, and lands of sustainable farmers. Contrary to some views, sustainable food systems are most helpful to the poor, especially the rural poor, who suffer the most from the dire social and ecological effects of industrial agriculture. Absent perverse subsidies to agrifood industries, what is good for farmers is also good for eaters and citizens. Holt-Gimnez and Patel contribute to an urgent awakening supported by practical experiments and expert reportsto the necessity and possibility for transforming food systems. Like cracks in the asphalt, solutions to the global food crisis can restore resilient food systems across the world.
Harriet Friedmann, professor of sociology, University of Toronto
Food Rebellions! is a tour de force ! Not only does it describe the corporate assault on the human right to food in all of its political, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions, it also documents the many ways rural and urban people are actively building alternative food systems to defend their land, water, seeds and livelihoods. These social movements and this inspiring book could not have come at a better time. In the face of multiple global crises, the growing local and international trends toward food sovereignty provide us with the hope we need to build a just and sustainable future.
Paul Nicholson, Ehne (Basque Farmers Union) and Via Campesina
Food Rebellions! situates with accuracy and precision the true meaning, causes and dynamics of what is commonly referred to as the global food crisis. It shows how skewed and dysfunctional the global food system is, and how the concentration of market power by a handful of transnational corporations translates to power over land, water, food and, indeed, life itself. In Part One, the authors trace with startling clarity the history of hunger and poverty to NorthSouth politics of domination and gender and class inequalities. They compel us to confront the questions: Who is hungry, and why? But all is not gloom and doom. In Part Two, the authors inspire us with examples of creative and constructive resistance by food producers and workers against the capitalist driven food system and propose strategies for transforming the food systemstrategies that are practical and well within the reach of anyone concerned with social and political justice. If Food Rebellions! does not make food rights activist of its readers, I dont know what will. This is a truly remarkable book.
Shalmali Guttal, senior associate of Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, Thailand
Hunger is a global scandal. I would call it a global structure of sin! Claiming to solve world hunger with the industrial ages solutions the corporations of the world really only structure the world for more hunger, poverty and misery. Food Rebellions! provides an analysis that is clear, documented and searing in its challenge to the powers that be. It provides solutions appropriate to our ecological age and to a new era of food democracy and food sovereignty. It reflects the vision of those most affected by the food crisis. I strongly endorse this book and I hope that it gets a wide readership. More importantly, though, I hope that it gets the support of the nations of the world suffering from hunger and poverty. It provides insights from those directly suffering from hunger and poverty, who have a right to be heard.
Miguel dEscoto Brockmann, president of the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations
The high and mighty proponents of free trade speak for the interests of multinational corporations when they try to stifle the economic policies that empower peasants, family farmers, and farm workers to grow healthy supplies of food while protecting Mother Earth. Rather than continue down the path that led to todays economic, environmental, and social catastrophe, Food Rebellions! calls on us to raise our voices in rebellion, join together, and place sustainable production and rural economic opportunity at the base of our recovery efforts.
George Naylor, former president of the National Family Farm CoalitionUSA
Pambazuka Presswww.pambazukapress.org
Formerly known as Fahamu Books, we are a pan-African publisher of progressive books that aim to stimulate debate, discussion, analysis and engagement on human rights and social justice in Africa and the global South. We have published books and CD-ROMs on Africa, the African Union, capacity building for civil society organizations, China and Africa, conflict, human rights, media, trade, aid & development, and womens rights.
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With over 1,500 contributors and an estimated 500,000 readers, Pambazuka News is the authoritative pan-African electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa, providing cutting-edge commentary and in-depth analysis on politics and current affairs, development, human rights, refugees, gender issues and culture in Africa.
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