Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice

by Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel

Book Overview

Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions Crisis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093502834X
• ISBN13: 9780935028348
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Food First Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 16 years and up