A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism by Holt-Giménez, Eric
A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism by Holt-Giménez, Eric

A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good,...
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Author: Eric Holt-Giménez
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Language: English
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A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism by Holt-Giménez, Eric

A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

$89.65
A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism by Holt-Giménez, Eric

A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

$89.65
Author: Eric Holt-Giménez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that.

In his latest book, Eric Holt-Giménez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode of food production. Drawing from classical and modern analyses, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism introduces the reader to the history of our food systemand to the basics of capitalism. In straightforward prose, Holt-Giménez explains the political economics of why--even as local, organic, and gourmet food have spread around the world--billions go hungry in the midst of abundance; why obesity is a global epidemic; and why land-grabbing, global warming, and environmental pollution are increasing.

Holt-Giménez offers emblematic accounts--and critiques--of past and present-day struggles to change the food system, from voting with your fork, to land occupations. We learn about the potential and the pitfalls of organic and community-supported agriculture, certified fair trade, microfinance, land trusts, agrarian reform, cooperatives, and food aid. We also learn about the convergence of growing social movements using the food system to challenge capitalism. How did racism, classism, and patriarchy become structural components of our food system? Why is a rational agriculture incompatible with the global food regime? Can transforming our food system transform capitalism? These are questions that can only be addressed by first understanding how capitalism works.

Author: Eric Holt-Giménez
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 10/24/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781583676592

About the Author
Holt-Giménez, Eric: - Eric Holt-Giménez is the director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, known as Food First, a "people's think tank" dedicated to ending the injustices that cause hunger. For over two decades, he has worked with peasant movements in Mexico and Central America, and has taught and published widely. He is the author of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture.
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