Introduction : obesity and the neoliberal diet -- The neoliberal food regime and its crisis : the dynamic factors -- Neoregulation of agricultural biotechnology at the national and suprastate scales -- Food and inequality in the United States -- Class diets in the NAFTA region: divergence or...

Strategies to prevent catastrophic climate change appear to conflict with solutions to the global food crisis. In the wake of financial turmoil, commodity speculation, the agro-fuel boom, and related food-price spikes in 2007-08, more than a billion people now face chronic hunger (FAO)....

"Ten essays and case studies examine impact of economic globalization and neoliberal reforms on Latin American agricultural sector. Describes process of agricultural modernization and its impact on urban and rural lower-income groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57