A revised and updated edition draws on extensive research to expose the myths regarding world hunger, examining the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries. Original.[...]

This book explains what is happening to the world's agricultural systems and their farmers under the impact of neoliberal economics. What is at stake is the very future of our global food system and of each country's agricultural and farming systems. The livelihoods of rural people in both industria[...]