Stuffed and Starved – Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

By R. Patel. 2009

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We have so much choice over what we eat today because rural communities the world over have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in a system that routinely denies freedom to the world's poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by these choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. "Stuffed and Starved" takes a long and wide view of food production, to show how we all suffer the consequences of a food system cooked to a corporate recipe. This is also the story of the fight against the unthinking commerce that brings it to us. In the wrecked paddy fields of India, in the soy deserts of Brazil, in the maize ejidos of Mexico, the supermarket aisles of California, French McDonald's and Italian kitchens, there's a worldwide resistance against unhealthy control of the food system.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (2017, background): “…based on the neoliberal logic of free trade, privatisation and the commodification of land, water, forests, fisheries, seeds, knowledge and life itself, the notion of food security would bring ruin and devastation to farmers, as well as health hazards to consumers around the world (Patel 2007).”
The neoliberal food regime in Latin America: state, agribusiness transnational corporations and biotechnology (2012, background): “We thus have the phenomenon in which obesity is combined with hunger on a planetary scale (Patel 2007).”
A food regime analysis of the ‘world food crisis’ (2009, background): “…agriculture as 'petro-farming' (Walker 2005), the surpluses of which provisioned food manufacturers in the First World and Third World labor forces with subsidized food aid that lowered labor costs in strategic states on the Cold War perimeter, and sought to pacify urban labor forces (Patel 2007).”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production (2013, background): “An uneven distribution of food (Patel 2008) causes problems such as an increase in the number of undernourished children in many countries (FAO 2006, 2008, IAASTD 2009).”
The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “The report acknowledges the high social return on agricultural development assistance, while decrying the inefficiency of smallholder farms compared to largerscale commercial farming (Patel 2007a, Amanor 2009, McMichael 2009a, Oya 2009a, b, Woodhouse 2009).”
Big Data in food and agriculture (2016, background): “Food studies scholars have revealed productivism as a model of over-production of inexpensive low-nutrient food that has brought great commercial gain to a handful of agri-food conglomerates, but for the rest of the world it has resulted in serious ecological (Moore Lappe, 1971), economic (Lang and ”