Verlagsinfo: This challenging but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that food has become reduced to a state, such as a...

Introduction -- Cheap food, globalization and development -- Cheap food and conflict -- Cheap food, hunger and obesity -- Cheap meat -- Cheap food and the environment -- Cheap food--but at what price? -- Cheap food, community and culture -- Cheap food: who wins? -- Making food affordable