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Food Politics
What Everyone Needs to Know
Robert Paarlberg
240 pages
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210x140mm
978-0-19-538959-3
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Paperback
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01 July 2010
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- In spring 2009, Harvard UP sold 2000 copies of Paarlberg's Starved for Science to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for distribution in Africa
- Concise, straightforward introduction to the range of phenomena the media has dubbed "food politics"
- Will act as a counterpoint to the overwhelmingly alarmist and polemical literature on the food crisis
- Paarlberg is an expert on food policy, a viewpoint underrepresented in the current popular literature
One of the most persistent and startling news stories of the past year has been the global crisis in the world's food supply. Reduced stockpiles have led to panic buying and hoarding, a sharp rise in prices, food riots, the virtual collapse of portions of the food industry, and dire warnings about food and water shortages. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has forecast prices to remain high for the foreseeable future, and the World Bank has predicted that this rise will push an additional 100 million people into poverty around the world.
Theories about the roots of the crisis are many,
diverse and contradictory: from increased production of biofuels, to rising populations, climate change, and environmentally harmful and inefficient farming practices. In Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Robert Paarlberg, one of the most prominent scholars writing on agricultural issues, maps out and demystifies the phenomena that newspapers and magazines have variously labelled as causes of the food crisis, often in highly alarmist tones.
Over the course of the book, Paarlberg addresses, in straightforward terms, questions about global food trade policy, agricultural subsidies, the factors contributing to famine and malnutrition, the green revolution, the effects of climate change on farming, the pros and cons of biofuels, food safety and regulation,
pesticide use, organic farming, and genetically modified crops. Focusing on the world's most vulnerable populations and couched within a firm historical understanding of farming practices, nutritional standards, and food movements, what he uncovers will surely be surprising to many readers and stand as a corrective to reactionary takes on the state of global agriculture. Paarlberg concludes with a revealing chapter on common assumptions about the food crisis and the future of food, pointing the way toward socially and environmentally sustainable—and attainable—practices in agriculture and the wider food industry.
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Robert Paarlberg, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
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"Paarlberg provides a lucid and insightful primer on this vital subject." - PD Smith, Saturday Guardian
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Introduction
1.: The World Food Crisis
2.: Hunger Even When World Prices are Low
3.: "Green Revolutions" in Agricultural Productivity
4.: Agricultural Subsidy and Trade Policies
5.: Food Quality and Safety, Environmental Protection, and Animal Welfare
6.: The Future of Food
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