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  • Grains

    par Bill Winders ...
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    Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people’s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international policy-making, as well as global issues like food security, biotechnology, and even climate change.But why are grains so important and ubiquitous? What political conflicts and economic processes underlie this ... En savoir plus

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  • The End of Poverty

    Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    **"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The EconomistThe landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists**Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Wars, Guns, and Votes

    Democracy in Dangerous Places

    par Paul Collier ...
    An expert on developing nations offers "accessible and very sensible analysis" of America's promotion of democracy abroad—and why it often fails ( Publishers Weekly).Oxford economist Paul Collier gives an eye-opening assessment of the corruption and political violence that plague developing nations across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While many of these governments meet America's standards for ... En savoir plus

    $15.83 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Making Globalization Work

    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... En savoir plus

    $16.37 CAD

  • The Challenge for Africa

    par Wangari Maathai ...
    In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution among Africans ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Collections series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... En savoir plus

    $8.63 CAD

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Collections series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... En savoir plus

    $8.63 CAD

  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    par Tony Weis ...
    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', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... En savoir plus

    $33.38 CAD

  • Hunger in the Balance

    The New Politics of International Food Aid

    par Jennifer Clapp ...
    Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent ... En savoir plus

    $22.31 CAD

  • World Hunger

    10 Myths

    "The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food." — The Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century's authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing ... En savoir plus

    $15.83 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Great Surge

    The Ascent of the Developing World

    par Steven Radelet ...
    The untold story of the global poor: “Powerful, lucid, and revelatory, The Great Surge…offers indispensable prescriptions about sustaining global economic progress into the future” (George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management).We live today at a time of great progress for the global poor. Never before have so many people, in so many developing countries, made so much progress, in so short a ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Sugar

    par Ben Richardson ...
    Collections series Resources
    There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it.Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful analysis, Ben Richardson argues that the most compelling answers to this question can be found in the dynamics of global capitalism. Led ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD