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For those with enough money - and that's most of us in wealthier countries - life is good. We can eat almost anything we want, regardless of where it comes from, what season it is or how much it costs. The world is our dish, laden with more foods than we've ever seen in history and more calories than we know what to do with. A continent away, there are more bloated bellies, but this time from malnutrition - seemingly due to a scarcity of food. But these two contrasting worlds are linked, deeply and inextricably. In a timely look at the entire global food chain, Stuffed and Starved asks us to think about the way our food comes to us, to understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in denying freedom to the world's poorest and to recognize how we ourselves are poisoned by our choices.

Raj Patel, an author uniquely qualified to take a long, broad view of world food production, looks at food systems - the machine most of us don't even know exists - and the web made up of corporations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, farmers' groups, government agencies and corporate lobbyists. From farm to fork, Patel travels to rural collectives in Brazil, investigates the all-powerful distribution networks, serves up the specific journeys of coffee, soy and high-fructose corn syrup, and visits the kitchens of fast-food restaurants. What he uncovers is the shocking story of commercial greed and helpless hunger that is a key ingredient in everything we eat.

Stuffed and Starved is one of the most shocking investigations into the "haves" feeding off the "have-nots" and a compelling look at how we all suffer the consequences of a food system cooked to a corporate recipe.



About the Author

Raj Patel was educated at Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy in Oakland, California, a visiting researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked for the World Bank, interned at the WTO, consulted for the UN and been involved in international campaigns against his former employers.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 A Looming Global Food Crisis, Avril 12 2008
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Do you want to know why this world is presently in a serious fix as to supporting the future needs of its swelling population? Read Patel and you'll see that the growing inability of many nations to feed their people can be traced to the same Western greed and chicanery that is likely driving the present financial crisis on Wall Street. Put simply, Patel presents some fairly compelling evidence that shows that western nations have, over the years, seized the capacity of developing nations to feed themselves. This has all been in name of agribusiness, where large multi-national corporations expand into poorer countries to buy up farmland, put small farmers out of business, and control the price of the product by restricting its distribution. Shortages in vital food commodities are due in no small part to big corporate speculators, working through hedge funds, buying large future positions on things like wheat, rice and corn. Their control of the supply allows them to hold back in the interests of getting a higher price. To get to that point, the Cargills and ADM of this world entered a countries like Mexicoand Brazil on the pretense of some international food-aid program that amounts to free food in exchange for a market presence. Western nations such as the USA are infamous for dumping their food surpluses in developing countries, which has the undesirable effect of immediately creating a drop in domestic farm prices, leading to a collapse in the farm industry. Once this dependency on food-aid has been solidified, the big corporations move in as middle men ready to form their own distribution systems and force out any local competition. As of today, we have a dire situation forming in Southeast Asia where the average person cannot afford to buy a main staple like rice because it has tripled in price due to artificial shortages. Since governments like India are powerless to release food to a needy public because of their initial complicity with the corporations, mass starvation could likely occur. As for how to fight this growing problem of economic congestion where prices rise to unaffordable levels in response to curtailing of supply, Patel's answer is simple: form collectives and marketing boards to protect the price for the producer at the local level. The kind of leveraging that these two economic bodies could produce might be enough to restore a semblance of competition to the market so that local farmers could produce food that was affordable to local consumers. This is a book that raises all kinds of geopolitical concerns that can only be resolved if bigtime capitalism steps back from its efforts to effect world domination in the interests of Western greed.

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