The reader in two volumes examines key issues of food and nutrition security under the driving forces of globalization and urbanization. The different sections and chapters present approaches to food security throughout the world in a historic as well as a systematic perspective. The methods...

The global food economy: contradictions and crises -- The temperate grain-livestock complex -- From colonialism to global market integration in the south -- Entrenching an uneven playing field: the multilateral regulation of agriculture -- The battle for the future of farming