Description
Book SynopsisA crucial exploration into the globally important struggles faced by peasant societies today.
Trade Review'Cogently underscores the global threat of financialisation to family farming, identifying possibilities for peasant mobilisation to protect land, food and society. It breathes new life and meaning into the agrarian question.' -- Professor Philip McMichael, Cornell University, author of Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions (2013)
'With historically unprecedented hunger sitting side by side with historically unprecedented obesity, it is apparent that the world food system is broken. As a result, around the world peasants and family farmers are struggling to construct a new, socially just, food system that cools the planet and feeds the world.' -- Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada
Table of ContentsWorld Forum for Alternatives
List of Abbreviations
Introduction - Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau
1. Theoretical Framework - Samir Amin
2. Latin America - João Pedro Stedile
3. Africa - Sam Moyo
4. Asia (I) - Erebus Wong and Jade Tsui Sit
5. Asia (II) - Utsa Patnaik
6. Oceania - Rémy Herrera and Poeura Tetoe
7. Europe - Gérard Choplin et al.
Conclusion - Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau
References
List of Contributors
Index
