This article is the third in a series of historical reviews on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),
exploring why agricultural production and irrigation schemes are underperforming, and how …

The world has experienced three global food crises in the past 50 years. While unique
triggers sparked each of these crises, they all exposed extreme concentration within the …

The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly
underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind …

The article begins by summarizing sociological approaches to (1) ecologically unequal
exchange, and (2) foreign investment dependence and environmental load displacement …

Development processes are never neutral. They impact various groups and classes of
people differently. A high food price may benefit some rich peasants who produce and sell …

Preface xxv chapter one Introduction 1 chapter two The Threat of Increasing Supply Price 8
chapter three Coping with the Threat 28 chapter four The Reserve Army of Labour in the …

The focus on entitlements, which is concerned with the command over commodities, has to
be seen as only instrumentally important, and the concentration has to be ultimately on basic …

In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a
substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins …

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat. The
current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus' food mountains' …

Written by leading authorities from Europe, the Americas and Asia, this path-breaking work
develops an innovative and original theorization of global political economy. Whilst most …