The great climate robbery : how the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it /
Are we starving sustainability?
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Toronto : Oxford, UK :
Between the Lines ; New Internationalist,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Food and climate change: the forgotten link; 1.1: How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis; 1.2: Food sovereignty: five steps to cool the planet and feed its people; 1.3: The Exxons of agriculture; 1.4: How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change; 1.5: Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor; 2. Hungry for land; 2.1: The solution to climate change is in our lands; 2.2: Family farm stories are not the fairy tales we're being told.
- 2.3: Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than one-quarter of all farmland2.4: Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab; 2.5: Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands; 2.6: The land grabbers of the Nacala Corridor; 2.7: Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap; 3. The struggle for seeds; 3.1: Seed laws that criminalize farmers; 3.2: Trade deals and farmers' seeds; 3.3: GMOs: Feeding or fooling the world?; 3.4: Yvapuruvu Declaration: seed laws
- resisting dispossession; 4. Controlling the food system.
- 4.1: Corporations replace peasants in China's new food security agenda4.2: Defending people's milk in India; 4.3: Food sovereignty for sale: supermarkets and dwindling people's power over food and farming in Asia; 4.4: How does the Gates Foundation spend its money to feed the world?; 4.5: Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil; 4.6: Free trade and Mexico's junk food epidemic.
