The Great Climate Robbery (eBook)

How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do About It

GRAIN (Autor)

Henk Hobbelink (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
224 Seiten
New Internationalist (Verlag)
978-1-78026-340-3 (ISBN)

Infos

How food and agribusiness corporations are causing climate change and what can be done to turn the system around

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In The Great Climate Robbery highly respected non-profit Grain connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change.

The collected articles in this book 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. This book features endorsements from Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and Vandana Shiva.

Henk Hobbelink is a member of the Grain collective, an international non-profit that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

Autor

GRAIN is an international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Food and climate change: the forgotten link
1.1 How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
1.2 Food sovereignty: five steps to cool the planet
1.3 The Exxons of agriculture
1.4 How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
1.5 Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor

Hungry for land
2.1 The solution to climate change is in our lands
2.2 Family farm stories are not the fairy tales we’re being told
2.3 Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than one–quarter of all farmland
2.4 Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab
2.5 Asia’s agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers’ hands
2.6 The landgrabbers of the Nacala Corridor
2.7 Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap

The struggle for seeds
3.1 Seed laws that criminalise farmers
3.2 Trade deals and farmers’ seeds
3.3 GMOs: Feeding or fooling the world?
3.4 Yvapuruvu Declaration: seed laws – resisting dispossession

Controlling the food system
4.1 Corporations replace peasants in China’s new food security agenda
4.2 Defending people’s milk in India
4.3 Food sovereignty for sale: supermarkets and dwindling people’s power over food and farming in Asia
4.4 How does the Gates Foundation spend its money to feed the world?
4.5 Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil
4.6 Free trade and Mexico’s junk food epidemic

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 1-78026-340-6 / 1780263406
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78026-340-3 / 9781780263403