Feeding frenzy : land grabs, price spikes, and the world food crisis / Paul McMahon.
Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a world food crisis. The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing coun...
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| Other title: | Land grabs, price spikes, and the world food crisis. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Berkeley :
Greystone Books,
[2014]
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| Summary: | Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a world food crisis. The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing countries are banning exports even if this means starving their neighbors. Governments and corporations are scrambling to secure control of food supply chains. Powerful groups from the Middle East and Asia are acquiring farmland in poor countries to grow food for export? what some call land. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations, graphs. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781771640145 1771640146 1306776910 9781306776912 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 8, 2014) |