Food Politics (What Everyone Needs to Know)
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Publisher Comments:
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, and food companies are under the microscope. Meanwhile, agricultural success in Asia has spurred income growth and dietary enrichment, but agricultural failure in Africa has left one-third of all citizens undernourished – and the international markets that link these diverse regions together are subject to sudden disruption.
Food Politics carefully examines and explains the most important issues on today’s global food landscape, including international food prices, famines, chronic hunger, the Malthusian race between food production and population growth, international food aid, “green revolution” farming, obesity, farm subsidies and trade, agriculture and the environment, agribusiness, supermarkets, food safety, fast food, slow food, organic food, local food, and genetically engineered food.
Politics in each of these areas has become polarized over the past decade by conflicting claims and accusations from advocates on all sides. Paarlberg’s book maps this contested terrain, challenging myths and critiquing more than a few of today’s fashionable beliefs about farming and food. For those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed and also challenged, this is the book to read.
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The struggle over how the losses and gains from state action are allocated in the food and farming sector is what we shall call food politics.
Thinking globally is generally good advice in sectors like finance or when working on problems such as climate change, but for the politics of food and agriculture, it is often more useful to think nationally or even locally.
livestock are now responsible for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, a bigger share than for transport.
The best approach is usually to combine agroecological insights with green revolution seeds and off-farm inputs.
Africa is failing to keep up with population growth not because it has exhausted its potential but instead because too little has been invested in developing that potential.
Typically in Africa today, governments spend only about 5 percent of their budget on any kind of agricultural investments, even though 60 percent of their citizens depend on the farming sector for income and employment.
roughly 65 percent of America’s food aid spending is eaten up by administrative and transport costs.
If biofuels demand had been the leading driver in the 2008 food price spike, corn prices would have risen more sharply than wheat or rice, yet corn rose less sharply than either.
Increasing the productivity of farm labor typically requires the introduction of new technologies such as improved seeds, fertilizers, and machinery. It also requires government investment in basic rural public goods such as roads and electricity.
The world does face a serious food crisis, but the best way to judge the magnitude of the crisis is to measure actual hunger rather than price fluctuations on the world market. This is because most of the world’s genuinely hungry people do not get their food from the world market.
Paradoxically and perversely, a majority of all these poor and hungry people in the developing world are farmers or pastoralists—people engaged in producing food. It is the low productivity of farming and animal grazing among the rural poor that is the chief cause of their chronic poverty, and it is their poverty that is the chief cause of their undernutrition.
About the Author
Robert Paarlberg is the B.F. Johnson Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. A leading authority on food policy, his books include Starved for Science, Policy Reform in American Agriculture, and Fixing Farm Trade.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: An Overview of Food Politics
Chapter Two: Food Production and Population Growth
Chapter Three: The Politics of High Food Prices
Chapter Four: The Politics of Chronic Hunger
Chapter Five: The Politics of Famine
Chapter Six: The Green Revolution Controversy
Chapter Seven: Food Aid and Food Power
Chapter Eight: The Politics of Obesity
Chapter Nine: The Politics of Farm Subsidies and Trade
Chapter Ten: Agriculture, the Environment, and Farm Animals
Chapter Eleven: Agribusiness, Supermarkets, and Fast Food
Chapter Twelve: Organic and Local Food
Chapter Thirteen: Food Safety and Genetically Engineered Food
Chapter Fourteen: Who Governs the World Food System?
Glossary
List of Acronyms Used in Book
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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- National Association of Flavors and Food
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- National Association of Margarine Manufacturers
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- National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors
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- National Pork Board
- National Pork Board.
- National Pork Producers Council
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- National Potato Council
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- National Poultry and Food Distributors Association
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- National Renderers Association
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- National Turkey Federation
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- North American Meat Processors Association
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- North American Millers’ Association
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- Northern Nut Growers Association
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- Organic Trade Association
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- Pacific Northwest Grain & Feed Assoc.
- Serves the needs of firms involved with grain, feed, and other agricultural commodities within the Pacific Northwest.
- Peanut & Tree Nut Processors Assoc.
- Provides a forum for processors, manufacturers, & suppliers of peanuts, tree nuts, and related products.
- Peanut Advisory Board
- Association representing peanut farmers in Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
- Peanut Institute
- Dedicated to expanding state-of-the-art knowledge regarding peanuts and peanut products.
- Pet Food Institute
- National Trade Association of dog and cat food manufacturers.
- Pickle Packers International
- Association for the pickled vegetable industry.
- Private Label Manufacturers Association
- Represents more than 3,200 companies around the world.
- Produce Marketing Association
- Trade association serving those who market fresh fruits, vegetables, and related products worldwide.
- R&D Associates for Military Food & Packaging
- Provides the safest and highest quality food and food service to the U.S. Armed Forces.
- Refrigerated Foods Association
- Goal is to become the principal association for prepared refrigeration food companies.
- Salt Institute
- Association of salt producers founded in 1914.
- Snack Food Association
- The Snack Food Association (SFA) is the international trade association of the snack food industry representing snack..
- Society of Human Resource Managment (SHRM)
- The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management…
- Southwest Meat Association
- Created to give support to its members by initiating opportunities & resolving problems.
- Soy Protein Council
- Formed to discuss and act on common issues of concern to the soy industry.
- Sugar Association
- Educates consumer and professional audiences about pure, natural sugar.
- Tea Association
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- U.S. Dairy Export Council
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- U.S. Grains Council
- Building global markets for U.S. grains.
- U.S. Meat Export Federation
- Working to create opportunities & develop existing international markets for U.S. beef, pork, lamb and veal.
- U.S. Poultry & Egg Association
- World’s largest and most active poultry organization.
- U.S. Wheat Associates
- Develops export markets on behalf of American wheat farmers.
- USA Rice Federation
- Promotes the domestic and international demand for rice.
- United Egg Association
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- United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association
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- United Soybean Board
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- Virginia Apple Growers Association
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- Walnut Marketing Board
- Promotes usage of walnuts in the U.S. through publicity, product promotions and production research & education programs.
- Washington State Potatoes
- State association to promote potato growers and suppliers.
- Western Growers Association
- Trade association whose members grow, pack, and ship 90 percent of the fresh vegetables in California and Arizona.
- Wheat Foods Council
- The Wheat Foods Council is an industry-wide partnership dedicated to increasing wheat and other grain foods…
- Wheat Quality Council
- Goal is to enhance the milling and end-use qualities of wheat in the United States.
- Wine Institute
- The public policy advocacy association of California wineries.
- Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc
- National trade organization representing the wholesale branch of the wine and spirits industry.
Thanks for the list! I added a couple of them to my own “to read” list.