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STUFFED AND STARVED: THE HIDDEN BATTLE FOR THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM
By: Raj Patel
Melville House
May 2008
On Sale: April 25, 2008
448 pages
ISBN: 1933633492
EAN: 9781933633497
Paperback
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βOne of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.ββNaomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine Half the world is malnourished, the other half obeseβboth symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation, traveling from the βgreen desertsβ of Brazil and protester-packed streets of South Korea to bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India. What he uncovers is shockingβthe real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet he also finds hopeβin international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system. From seed to store to plate, Stuffed and Starved explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance. RAJ PATEL, policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, heβs also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them.
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