The Great Food Robbery

Author : Genetic Resources Action International
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857491138

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The Great Food Robbery by Genetic Resources Action International Pdf

Arguing that corporations are mainly responsible for the expansion of the damaging industrial food system, this discussion focuses on these organizations and the ways they organize and control food production and distribution. Demonstrating how the corporate food system destroys those systems based on local markets, local cultures, and biodiversity, this account highlights howit puts the profits of the few before the needs of people and leads to massive food safety incidents, environmental destruction, labor exploitation, and the decimation of rural communities. Informative and direct, this book aims to inspire individuals to actively take the food system back from corporations and put it in the hands of people."

Author : Genetic Resources Action International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780263325

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The Great Climate Robbery by Genetic Resources Action International Pdf

The follow-up to GRAIN's The Great Food Robbery this title moves on to connect analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and link peoples' struggles over food to climate change. Will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations seek to control the food system, and give information and analysis to challenge this control.

Author : James Trager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Russia
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000465405

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The Great Grain Robbery by James Trager Pdf

Author : Jill Atkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1445102897

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The Great Food Robbery by Jill Atkins Pdf

A greedy badger and his gang start stealing food from the towns people until Robin Rabbit devises a plan to stop them.

Author : GRAIN,Genetic Resources Action International
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9382381686

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The Great Climate Robbery by GRAIN,Genetic Resources Action International Pdf

"Over twenty-five years, GRAIN has worked with social movements and organisations around the world to defend local food systems and cultures from the advance of industrial agriculture. Our work has also involved connecting this analysis to larger issues affecting the planet, linking peoples' struggles situated within the food system to those happening in other areas. Climate change is one important example of this. The great climate robbery explains how the industrial food system is a major driver of climate change and how food sovereignty is critical to any lasting and just solution. With governments, particularly those from the main polluting countries, abdicating their responsibility to deal with the problem, it has become critical for people to take action into their own hands. Changing the food system is perhaps the most important and effective place to start. This book show you how."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : GRAIN,Henk Hobbelink
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771132886

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The Great Climate Robbery by GRAIN,Henk Hobbelink Pdf

Author : Genetic Resources Action International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1742199917

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The Great Climate Robbery by Genetic Resources Action International Pdf

The great climate robbery provides valuable information about how the industrial food system causes climate change, how food and agribusiness corporations are getting away with it, and what can be done to turn things around. The various chapters in this collection document the ill effects of this industrial food system such as the growing hunger, the destruction of rural peoples¿ livelihoods, the loss of biodiversity and cultures, the exploitation of labour and a range of health calamities. This timely anthology by the international NGO Grain shows how food sovereignty is critical to any lasting and just solution to climate change. With governments, particularly those from the main polluting countries, abdicating their responsibility to deal with the problem, it has become ever more critical for people to take action into their own hands. Changing the food system is perhaps the most important and effective place to start.

Author : Onjali Q. Raúf
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593488195

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Heroes Like Us: Two Stories by Onjali Q. Raúf Pdf

From Onjali Q. Rauf, acclaimed author of The Boy At the Back of the Class, come two poignant tales of modern-day heroism, featuring supermarket theives, a visit with the Queen, and plenty of laughs! Ten-year old Ahmet, once known as the "Boy at the Back of the Class", became the Most Famous Refugee Boy in the World when he and his friends stood up for refugee children like him all over Britain. But they're just getting started! THE DAY WE MET THE QUEEN Ahmet and his friends have been invited to tea—by none other than the Queen of England herself! But when their journey is unexpectedly interrupted by an old enemy, it will take some quick thinking and an ingenious plan to make it to the palace—and the queen—on time. THE GREAT FOOD BANK HEIST On Thursdays, Nelson, Ashley and Mum head out to the food bank. With its shining cans and boxes of food stacked from floor to ceiling, Nelson thinks it’s the best kind of bank there is. But there’s a thief in town, and the shelves of the food bank are getting emptier each day. One thing is for certain: someone has to put a stop to the robberies. And Nelson and his friends plan to do just that, with a daring supermarket stake-out that's sure to catch the Food Bank Theives—if they don't get found out first! In this two-novella collection, discover kid heroes making a difference in the world, featuring old friends and some new classmates you won't want to leave.

Author : Marion W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192842985

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The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt by Marion W. Dixon Pdf

This book details the development and growth of a corporate agri-food system in Egypt. The system includes food processing and an animal protein complex largely for corporate consumer markets in the country-from street kiosks to fast food outlets to hypermarkets-and fresh fruits and vegetables largely for export. Marion W. Dixon demonstrates the importance of reclaimed lands, or frontiers, for the development and growth of the corporate agri-food system since the 1980s. Various forces, including multiple threats from plant and animal diseases (the Avian flu, especially) have pushed and pulled agribusiness to new lands. This system's growth has also rested on imports and contract farming. As a result, dependence on food imports has grown. What agriculturalists grow has changed toward processing vegetables and animal protein, and what Egyptians eat has changed toward foods/drinks high in unhealthy fats, sugars, and sodium. Through mixed-methods research in Egypt between 2008 and 2012, The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt shows how the growth of corporate food has contributed to growing food insecurity and to multiplying threats to public health from chronic and infectious diseases.

Author : Michel. P. Pimbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317354970

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Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity by Michel. P. Pimbert Pdf

Contestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. ‘Food sovereignty’ is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology, biocultural diversity, equity, social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities, policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity, decentralisation, dynamic adaptation and democracy. The authors critically explore the changes in organizations, research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional, pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food, environment and society. Chapters 1 and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Renu Modi,Fantu Cheru
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780323732

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Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa by Renu Modi,Fantu Cheru Pdf

The subject of food security and land issues in Africa has become one of increased importance and contention over recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to the role new global South donors - especially India, China and Brazil - are playing in shaping African agriculture through their increased involvement and investment in the continent. Approaching the topic through the framework of South-South co-operation, this highly original volume presents a critical analysis of the ways in which Chinese, Indian and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture are structured and implemented. Do these investments have the potential to create new opportunities to improve local living standards, transfer new technology and knowhow to African producers, and reverse the persistent productivity decline in African agriculture? Or will they simply aggravate the problem of food insecurity by accelerating the process of land alienation and displacement of local people from their land? Topical and comprehensive, Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa offers fresh insight into a set of relationships that will shape both Africa and the world over the coming decades.

Author : Del Weston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135084936

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The Political Economy of Global Warming by Del Weston Pdf

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too often seen as an isolated problem rather than one of a suite of exceptional, converging and accelerating crises arising from the global capitalist political economy. This book adopts a political economy framework to address these issues. It accepts the science of global warming but challenges the predominant politics and economics of global warming. To illustrate the key issues involved, the book draws on South Africa – building on Samir Amin’s thesis that the country represents a microcosm of the global political economy. By taking a political economy approach, the book provides a clear explanation of the deep and pervasive problem of the denial which fails to acknowledge global warming as a systemic rather than a market problem. The book should be of interest to students and scholars researching climate change, environmental politics, environmental and ecological economics, development studies and political economics.

Author : Ray Considine,Murray Raphel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556018884395

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The Great Brain Robbery by Ray Considine,Murray Raphel Pdf

Author : Andro Linklater
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781408815748

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Owning the Earth by Andro Linklater Pdf

Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a result of the most creative - and, at the same time, destructive - cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land. This notion laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. Other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, evolved very different structures of land ownership, and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility.The seventeenth-century English surveyor William Petty was the first man to recognise the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky redistributed land in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea after the Second World War to make possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies. Through the eyes of these remarkable individuals and many more, including Chinese emperors and German peasants, Andro Linklater here presents the evolution of land ownership to offer a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet.

Author : Tim Warnes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781680103526

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The Great Cheese Robbery by Tim Warnes Pdf

Daddy Elephant is as big and strong as a tractor. But he's terrified of mice! So when a mischievous mouse tries to steal his cheese, Daddy doesn't know what to do! Can little Patrick Elephant save the cheese; and his daddy? Or will he need a little help?