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Hunger and obesity sit side by side in the world today because a food system dominated by money, markets and profits allows those with money to obtain above and beyond their needs while those without cannot get the fundamentals of life. The result is a growing polarization of global agriculture, between a small number of haves and an ever-increasing number of have-nots. In Hungry for Change, Haroon Akram-Lodhi explains how capitalism was introduced into farming and how it transformed the terms and conditions by which farmers produce food. Written in accessible language and incorporating accounts from farmers and agricultural workers, this book explains how the creation, structure and operation of the capitalist world food system is marginalizing family farmers, small-scale peasant farmers and landless rural workers as it entrenches us all in a global subsistence crisis. Building upon the idea of food sovereignty, Akram-Lodhi develops a set of additional solutions to resolve the current crisis of the world food system”
A must-read for anyone who cares about understanding food and the planet today.
— Raj Patel
This readable, inspiring book is a wonderful introduction to what will surely be one of the defining social struggles of our times: the struggle over food.
— Jim Stanford, economist, Canadian Auto Workers
If you want to understand how the contemporary global food crisis came about or how an alternative, more just, egalitarian and ecological agrarian system can be developed, then this is the book for you. The book reveals a profound understanding of the workings of the global food system and makes you hungry for change. Read it!”
— Cristóbal Kay, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; soas, University of London and flacso Ecuador, Quito
A short and sharp book about the global food system and its profound and widespread transformation of the ways in which food is produced, distributed and consumed.
— Thi Thu Trang Tran for the _Canadian Journal of Development Studies_ Vol. 35, No. 2, 328-333, 2014 (full review)
Throughout the book, Professor Akram-Lodhi demonstrates how the pressures of the capitalist market in agriculture drives prices to farmers down and how this drives smallholders–those who still produce over half the world’s food–to poverty, desperation and migration; and how the official responses to the food crisis (e.g. World Bank) will aggravate rather than solve the problem.
