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Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.

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In 2015, the international community decided to eradicate hunger and assure food security by 2030 as part of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda. Unfortunately, this optimism was not sustained with actions and has been fading ever since. This policy brief looks at the current situation of food (in)security, analyses the main reasons for the fading optimism, and explores possible means to regain it. This special edition brief is an advocacy plea by former EU Commissioner Fischler in view of important conferences on food security in 2021.

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« Plus d'une décennie après la dernière crise alimentaire, la pandémie de covid-19 a de nouveau mis en lumière les dysfonctionnements et l'extrême vulnérabilité du système agro-industriel mondialisé. En dépit des engagements de la communauté internationale à éradiquer la faim dans le monde, le nombre de personnes en situation d'insécurité alimentaire augmente, les disparités se creusent et la crise écologique s'aggrave, à mesure que le modèle d'agriculture commerciale et productiviste se généralise. Face à ce constat d'échec, un consensus se fait jour sur la nécessité et l'urgence d'une révision en profondeur des systèmes alimentaires. Mais l'orientation d'une telle transformation fait débat. Reprenant à leur compte la rhétorique du changement, les grandes firmes agro-industrielles entendent garder le contrôle. Fortes du soutien des puissances agro-exportatrices, elles comptent imposer leur modèle de "révolution doublement verte" et leur approche techno-productiviste dite "durable", comme seule réponse possible au triple défi de la faim, du changement climatique et de la croissance démographique. Les mouvements paysans et leurs alliés dénoncent cette mainmise. Contre les nouvelles logiques d'accumulation à l'œuvre, ils en appellent à une démocratisation de la gouvernance internationale et à un changement radical de paradigme : la transition vers un modèle de souveraineté alimentaire qui s'appuie sur des modes de production agroécologiques et réalise le droit à l'alimentation. »--Page 4 de la couverture.

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Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias places the relationship between food and gender in cross-cultural, cross-regional, and transnational contexts in order to identify how global politics, economy, and culture influence gender dynamics; and maintain or shift the existing gender hierarchy, inequality, and sexual behavior.

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