"In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sector ..."
"In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sector ..."
"Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refuse to investigate the relationships between various systems--the local and the global, the ..."
"An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refus ..."
Food(3rd Edition) (Resources) by JenniferClapp Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4177-5, ISBN: 1-5095-4177-2
"We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world’s population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy in recent decades has highlighted a number of vulnerabilities and contradictions inherent in the way we currently organize this vital sector. Extremes of both undernourishment and overnourishment affect a significant proportio ..."
Dumping on the Poor Toxic Waste Trade with Developing Countries (Global Security Programme Occasional Paper) by JenniferClapp Paperback, 60 Pages, Published by Global Security Programme ISBN-13: 978-1-899819-04-1, ISBN: 1-899819-04-5
Speculative Harvests Financialization, Food, and Agriculture (Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies) by JenniferClapp, S. Ryan Isakson Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2018 by Fernwood Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-77363-023-6, ISBN: 1-77363-023-7
"In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of financial actors, markets, motives and profits in an economy, financialization is a defining feature of modern-day capitalism that is reconfigu ..."
Toxic Exports The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries by JenniferClapp 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3593-6, ISBN: 1-5017-3593-4
"In her insightful and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem."
Food(2nd Edition) (Resources) by JenniferClapp Digital, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Imprint Unknown ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0083-3, ISBN: 1-5095-0083-9
"Figure 4.3 Top 10 Food and Beverage Companies in 2015 Sources: Forbes 2015
Global 2000 (available at: www.forbes.com/global2000/list) and webpages for
Cargill and Mars (both of which are private companies and thus not listed in the
Forbes ranking; they are placed here where ... Kraft is now Kraft-Heinz following
a merger in 2015, which will move it up the list in terms of size in 2016. ... Its
corporate brochure notes: “We connect ..."
Hunger in the Balance The New Politics of International Food Aid by JenniferClapp 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6440-9, ISBN: 0-8014-6440-4
"Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of U.S. Programs and Policy. CRS Report
for Congress. Updated January 19. http://fpc. state.gov/documents/organization/
45939.pdf. Taylor, Ed, and Daniel Pruzin. 2004. Top Trade Officials Announce “
Convergence” on Points Related to WTO Agriculture Talks. International Trade
Reporter 21 (25): 1011. Third World Network. 2002. GMO Food Aid: Ripple in the
WSSD Corridors.http://www. twnside.org.sg/ti ..."
Hunger in the Balance The New Politics of International Food Aid by JenniferClapp 216 Pages, Published 2015 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6393-8, ISBN: 0-8014-6393-9
"In analyzing WFP use of LRP over the 2001–5 period, David Tschirley and Anne
Marie del Castillo found that in “most countries, in most years, pressure on local
prices from LRP has likely been minimal,” though they do note that further ..."
Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa(1st Edition) Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea (International Political Economy Series) by JenniferClapp Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-349-39840-9, ISBN: 1-349-39840-3
"With the adoption of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment programme in the mid-1980s, Guinea underwent a dramatic change in its economic and agricultural policies. The country's experience over the past decade illustrates some of the most pressing problems encountered by African countries pursuing economic reform. This book analyses these difficulties by examining the adjustment experience in Guinea as it affected the country's ..."
Resources Ser. Food by JenniferClapp 200 Pages, Published 2013 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7563-3, ISBN: 0-7456-7563-8
"... Tim and Heasman, Michael (2004), Food Wars: The Global Battle for Mouths,
Minds and Markets. Earthscan, London, p. 160; On the effect of Wal-Mart on the
market share of other retailers, see Artz, Georgeanne and Stone, Kenneth (2006),
..."
Resources Ser. Food by JenniferClapp 200 Pages, Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5947-3, ISBN: 0-7456-5947-0
"Draft, 6 November; World Bank (2007), World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. World Bank: ... See Steward, Corrina, Maria Aguiar, Nikhil Aziz, Jonathan Leaning and Daniel Moss (2007), Towards a Green Food System: How Food Sovereignty Can Save the Environment and ... Patel, Raj ( 2010)."
Food by JenniferClapp Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-53443-8, ISBN: 1-299-53443-0
Hunger in the Balance(1st Edition) The New Politics of International Food Aid by JenniferClapp Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2012 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-5039-6, ISBN: 0-8014-5039-X
"Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent clashes between donor nations―and between ..."
The MIT Press Ser. Paths to a Green World : The Political Economy of the Global Environment by Peter Dauvergne, JenniferClapp Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-29715-8, ISBN: 0-262-29715-9
Food(1st Edition) by JenniferClapp Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2011 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4935-1, ISBN: 0-7456-4935-1
"Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of the world’s population gains a livelihood from agriculture and we all consume food. Yet control over this fundamental resource is concentrated in relatively few hands. The 2008 food price crisis illustrated both the volatility and vulnerability built into the current global food system; at the height of the crisis, the number of hungry people o ..."