Open AccessTony Weis. The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming. London and New York: Zed Books/Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishers, 2007. 217 pages. Paperback. Price not given.
Author(s) -
Ejaz Ghani
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v46i2pp.180-181
Subject(s) - poverty , battle , extreme poverty , economic shortage , development economics , population , agriculture , economic history , economic growth , political science , economy , geography , economics , sociology , demography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , government (linguistics)
Tony Weis’s book provides a systematic analysis of thedynamics, problems, and inequities of the global food economy. Startingwith the current situation regarding hunger and poverty, the authorstates that despite the fact that food production is more than needed toprovide every person on earth with a nutrition diet, hunger stillpersists. The percentage of world population with food shortages hasdeclined but absolute numbers have grown. Similar is the case withpoverty. According to the World Bank estimates, 2.8 billion people areliving on less than US$2 a day and 1.2 billion are living in extremepoverty (less than US$1). And a special feature of the hunger andpoverty is that these problems are acute in developing countries,especially South Asian and sub- Saharan African countries.