The global food system is in profound crisis. More than a billion
people suffer from hunger, and their numbers are rising faster than the
global population. Yet more than enough food is produced to feed
everybody in the world. At the same time we are heading deeper into a
global climate crisis, for which the industrial food system is to a
large extent to blame. Meanwhile corporations are grabbing huge areas of
land and water systems in poor countries, and displacing rural
communities.
A new book calle
d The Great Food Robbery looks at looks
at the forces behind these developments. It focuses on corporations and
the ways they organise and control food production and distribution
because it is corporations who are mainly responsible for the expansion
of the damaging industrial food system.
Read more about it here:
http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100007280