The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last thirty years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence, some people have too much food and die from associated diseases. Furthermore, some methods of food production create social dislocation and deadly environments where biodiversity is eroded and pollution is rampant. While guaranteeing enough food for the world's inhabitants continues to be a serious challenge, new issues about food have emerged.
Food and Development is a lively and lucidly written text which provides a clear and accessible introduction to these complex and diverse food related problems. It explores the continued prevalence of mass under nutrition in the developing world; acute food crises in some places associated with conflict; the emergence of over nutrition in the developing world and the vulnerability of the contemporary global food production system. The text identifies the major problems and analyzes factors at international, national and local scales to understand their continued prevalence. The book concludes by evaluating the potential of some oppositional forces to challenge the hegemony of the contemporary food system.
This timely and original text will be invaluable to undergraduates interested in the challenges surrounding food and development. The text is richly filled with case studies from the Global North and South to illustrate the nature and extent of these urgent issues and their interrelated nature. Each chapter contains a range of features to assist undergraduate learning, including: learning objective, key concepts, summaries, discussion questions, further reading and websites, and follow up activities.
agriculture 106–7; urban 258–61; women’s role in 273, 279–92
agri-food 107, 118, 194
aid programmes 15, 330, 333–8, 365
AIDS see HIV/AIDS
Aldi (company) 126
allotmemt gardens 259
Al-Shabab movement 329
alternative food networks (AFNs) 351–7
altruism in development theory 180
Amnesty International 325
anaemia 41–3
Anderson, K. 185
Angola 225
animal welfare 372–3
aquaculture see fishing and fish-farming
Aracruz Celulose (company) 173
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) 122
Argentina 177
arms trading 319
Arnold, D. 27, 49–51
‘Asian tiger’economies 363
Australia 194, 239–40
authoritarianism 176
Bacchetta, M. 295
Bailey, R. 163
Baltimore 370–1
Ban Ki-moon 291
Bangladesh 214
Barrientos, S. 127–8
Batwa people 236–7
Bayer Corporation 13
Berlin Conference (1884–85) 313
Bernstein, H. 158, 170
Bhatt, Ela 301
Binns, T. 154
biodiversity 203
biofuels 132–5, 237
Blas, J. 8
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Table of contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction: food, politics and power
The contemporary nature and geography of malnutrition
Theoretical perspectives: understanding the patterns
Globalization, development and malnutrition
National perspectives
Sub-national perspectives
Gender and nutrition: the female case
Conflict and hunger
Alternative visions
Bibliography
Index
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