Endless Appetites / Bloomberg (ePub)
How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Endless Appetites / Bloomberg (ePub)“
Author's Note viii Prologue xi CHAPTER 1: Floors, Fields, and Famines 1 CHAPTER 2: Chicago Makes a Market 13 CHAPTER 3: Elephants in the Kiddie Pool 25 CHAPTER 4: A Recipe for Famine 39 CHAPTER 5: The View from Rome 51 CHAPTER 6: Hot Air 65 CHAPTER 7: Promise 79 CHAPTER 8: The Price of a Cup of Coffee 97 CHAPTER 9: A Better Banana 113 CHAPTER 10: Thai Quality 131 CHAPTER 11: Steps Up 147 CHAPTER 12: Harvest of Hope 159 Notes 169 Acknowledgments 189 About the Author 191 Index 193
Autoren-Porträt von Alan Bjerga
Alan Bjerga has covered food and agricultural issues for more than a decade for Knight-Ridder Newspapers and Bloomberg News. He won the Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year Award from the North American Agricultural Journalists in 2005. In 2009, he was recognized for covering U.S. food aid and famine in Ethiopia by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the North American Agricultural Journalists, the New York Press Club, and the Overseas Press Club. In 2010, Bjerga was President of the National Press Club and the North American Agricultural Journalists.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alan Bjerga
- 2011, 1. Auflage, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 111816959X
- ISBN-13: 9781118169599
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2011
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