 | The Politics of Hunger: The Global Food System Subjects: Environment & Agriculture; Area Studies; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Food Science & Technology; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Development Policy; Environment & the Global South; Environmental Policy; Environmental Politics; Environmental Issues; Environment & Resources; Environment & Economics; Food Laws & Regulations; International Political Economy; Regulatory Policy; Agriculture & Environmental Sciences; African Studies; Economics; Industry & Industrial Studies; Food Chemistry; Human Geography; International Politics; International Relations; U.S. Politics; Agriculture and Food; African Economics; African Development; Africa and the Environment; International Economics; Development Economics; Political Economy; Nutrition; Environmental Geography; African Politics; Foreign Policy; American Political Economy; Primary Industries; Originally published in 1987. This important and provocative book explains the persistence of hunger, poverty, and the lack of balanced development in many countries and the central role of agriculture in economic development. Most theories of agricultural development are based on the experiences of western Europe and the United States while the two models for successful "late development" have been Japan and the Soviet Union. This book surveys the evolution of agriculture under colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and concludes that this long period distorted the development prospects for these areas and retarded the production of food. Under strong state capitalist governments, a few underdeveloped countries have broken the colonial patterns of development. However, other post-revolutionary societies are having far less success because of economic blockades and outside military intervention. |
