Book description
How to understand the twenty-first century food crisis
Since 2007, farm-product prices have rocketed and plunged, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how "food security," the availability of food and the reasonable ability to buy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time. With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more and more pressing, proven by this year's record increase in food prices, which has already topped the spike of 2008.
Award-winning commodities reporter Alan Bjerga explains the food crisis and why it is happening in an accessible, articulate manner
Why is this happening when more food is being grown than ever?
Why are crop markets first established in the 1800's to help stabilize agricultural commodity prices acting like an investors' casino, with prices absorbed by rich nations taking food from the mouths of the poor?
From college campuses to emergency UN meetings, "food security" is one of the hottest topics of the day, with no shortage of interest in how to stabilize food prices worldwide to close the hunger gap
To understand the growing international food crisis, readers need an expert they can rely on. One of the most widely acclaimed journalists on food security, Alan Bjerga is up to the task, taking readers from the trading floor of Chicago to the highlands of East Africa to the rice paddies of Thailand on a global trek to find the causes of the food-price crisis and the solutions.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Prologue
- CHAPTER 1: Floors, Fields, and Famines
- CHAPTER 2: Chicago Makes a Market
- CHAPTER 3: Elephants in the Kiddie Pool
- CHAPTER 4: A Recipe for Famine
- CHAPTER 5: The View from Rome
- CHAPTER 6: Hot Air
- CHAPTER 7: Promise
- CHAPTER 8: The Price of a Cup of Coffee
- CHAPTER 9: A Better Banana
- CHAPTER 10: Thai Quality
- CHAPTER 11: Steps Up
- CHAPTER 12: Harvest of Hope
-
Notes
- Chapter 1: Floors, Fields, and Famines
- Chapter 2: Chicago Makes a Market
- Chapter 3: Elephants in the Kiddie Pool
- Chapter 4: A Recipe for Famine
- Chapter 5: The View from Rome
- Chapter 6: Hot Air
- Chapter 7: Promise
- Chapter 8: The Price of a Cup of Coffee
- Chapter 9: A Better Banana
- Chapter 10: Thai Quality
- Chapter 11: Steps Up
- Chapter 12: Harvest of Hope
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index
Product information
- Title: Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2011
- Publisher(s): Bloomberg Press
- ISBN: 9781118043233
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