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Ill fares the land : essays on food, hunger, and power

Title
Ill fares the land : essays on food, hunger, and power / Susan George.
Author
George, Susan.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Institute for Policy Studies, ©1984.

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Description
xviii, 102 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Abstract: Six scholarly essays about food and nutrition policy challenge long-held credos and strategies for feeding hungry people and satisfying food shortages over the long term. The author presents a two-pronged approach in her discussion of food policy and hunger. The first involved de-constructing the prevailing assumptions regarding hunger (i.e. hunger is caused by over-population, can be alleviated by food trade and assistance, and is a scientific problem that can be alleviated by technological innovation), demonstrating their empirical inadequacy and their hidden political assumptions. The second involved an outline of an agenda for research and action to reconstruct an alternative knowledge about hunger. It is concluded that hunger is a political program of power and will and a problem of poverty, and that scholars should study the poor less and the powerful more, challenging the systems of power and privilege. It also concluded that, without this challenge, the same inadequate patterns will be repeated over and over again. (wz).
Subject
  • Food supply
  • Food supply > Government policy
  • Agriculture and state
  • Agricultural assistance
  • Poverty
  • Agriculture > Research > Developing countries
  • poverty
  • Agriculture > Research
  • Agrarpolitik
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Ernährungspolitik
  • Armut
  • Welternährung
  • Armoede
  • Voedselvraagstuk
  • Developing countries
  • Entwicklungsländer
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Overcoming hunger : strengthen the weak, weaken the strong -- Dangerous embrace : culture, economics, politics, and food systems -- Demeter's dilemma, decolonizing research -- Caveat emptor : the "transfer" of technology -- The SNOB theory of underdevelopment -- A knowledge of hunger.
ISBN
  • 0897580397
  • 9780897580397
LCCN
84025124
OCLC
  • ocm11398046
  • 11398046
  • SCSB-615281
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library