Sustainable agriculture and food security : the impact of globalisation

Shiva, Vandana. (Added Author). Bedi, Gitanjali. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0761995439 (hb)
Physical Description: print
513 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Globalisation of Agriculture, Food Security and Sustainability / Vandana Shiva -- 2. Structural Adjustment and Food Security in Pakistan: An Aggregate Analysis / Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Sajid Kazmi and Zahid Ahmad -- 3. Impact of Globalisation on Agriculture, Marginal Farmers and the Poor in Sri Lanka / Sarath Fernando -- 4. Impact of SAP on Land Resources and Food Accessibility in Maharashtra / Sulabha Brahme -- 5. Impact of Structural Adjustment Programme on Land and Water Resources of Gujarat / Darshini Mahadevia -- 6. Foodgrain Stocks to Feed the Poor or to Pay for Liberalised Imports? / Abhijit Sen -- 7. Seeds of Suicide: The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture / Vandana Shiva and Afsar H. Jafri -- 8. Corporate Reapers: Towards Total Globalisation of Our Food Supply / A. V. Krebs -- 9. US Agriculture Policy and the Uruguay Round: Implications for Food Security and Global Democracy / Kristin Dawkins -- 10. Hi-tech Floriculture, Sustainability and Food Security Issues: The Case of Rose Cultivation around Bangalore, Karnataka / T. N. Prakash -- 11. Food Security: Does it Conflict with Globalisation? / Tim Lang -- 12. Globalisation, Peasant Agriculture and Food Security in Mexico: Neither Comparative Advantage nor Food Self-sufficiency / Victor Suares Carrera -- 13. International Trade and Food Security in India / Amitava Mukherjee -- 14. Industrial Fisheries and Industrial Aquaculture in India: Some Thoughts on their Common Features and Inter-relations / John Kurien -- 15. Factory Farming: The Global Mistake / Philip Lymbery -- 16. Monopoly and Monoculture: Trends in the Indian Seed Industry / Vandana Shiva and Tom Crompton -- 17. Biodiversity and Biotechnology / Beth Burrows -- 18. Associative Economics: Responding to the Challenge of Elite Globalisation / Nicanor Perlas -- 19. From Global Dependence to Local Interdependence / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- 20. Annam Bahu Kurvita: The Indian Discipline of Growing and Sharing Food in Plenty / J. K. Bajaj and M. D. Srinivas -- Postscript: Starvation Deaths, Overflowing Godowns: How Globalisation is Robbing the Indian People of Food / Vandana Shiva -- App. People's Charter for Food Security.