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Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system

Title
Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system / Raj Patel.
Author
Patel, Raj.
Publication
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House Pub., ©2007, 2008.

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Description
ix, 398 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
Explains the political and economic reasons behind the simultaneous hunger and obesity epidemics worldwide, and describes what is being done to eliminate these disparities.
Subject
  • Food supply
  • Food industry and trade
  • Poverty
  • Agriculture > Economic aspects
  • Agriculture > Social aspects
  • poverty
  • Production alimentaire
  • Production agricole
  • Commerce international
  • Commerce agricole
  • Industrie alimentaire
  • Food industry
Note
  • Originally published: London : Portobello, 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-381) and index.
Contents
A rural autopsy -- You have become Mexican -- 'Just a cry for bread' -- The customer is our enemy: a brief introduction to food system business -- Better living through chemistry -- Glycine rex -- Checking out of supermarkets -- Chosen by bunnies.
ISBN
  • 9781933633497
  • 1933633492
LCCN
2008008753
OCLC
  • ocn182529373
  • 182529373
  • SCSB-1471039
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library