This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering.
Despite global efforts to end hunger, it persists and has even increased in some regions. This book provides interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the manifestations of food insecurity, with case studies illustrating how people coped with violations of their rights during the war-time deprivation in France; the neoliberal incursions on food supply in Turkey, Greece, and Nicaragua; as well as the consequences of radioactive contamination of farmland in Japan. This edited collection adopts an analytical approach to understanding food insecurity by examining how the historical and political situations in different countries have resulted in an unfolding dialectic of food insecurity and resistance, with the most marginalized peopleimmigrants, those in refugee camps, poor peasants, and so forthconsistently suffering the worst effects, yet still maintaining agency to fight back.
The book tackles food insecurity on a local as well as a global scale and will thus be useful for a broad range of audiences, including students, scholars, and the general public interested in studying food crises, globalization, and current global issues.
1 Food insecurity in context MOLLY D. ANDERSON AND TAMAR MAYER; 2 Causes
and consequences of njaa (hunger) in the household: food security and
intimate partner violence within an informal settlement in Mombasa, Kenya
ADAM GILBERTSON; 3 Food is a gift of the earth: food sovereignty among
migrant farmworkers in rural Vermont JESSIE MAZAR AND TERESA MARES; 4 Food
insecurity and the struggle for food sovereignty in the time of structural
adjustment: the case of Greece CHARALAMPOS KONSTANTINIDIS; 5 Food insecurity
in the age of neoliberalism in Turkey and its neighbors MURAT ÖZTÜRK, FAIK
GÜR, AND JOOST JONGERDEN; 6 Links between land access, land use, and hunger
in todays neoliberal Nicaragua BIRGIT SCHMOOK, LINDSEY CARTE, CLAUDIA RADEL,
AND SANTANA NAVARRO OLMEDO; 7 Global water grabbing and food insecurity
JAMPEL DELLANGELO, MARIA CRISTINA RULLI, AND PAOLO DODORICO; 8 Food
security in a premodern agrarian empire: the case of Rome KYLE HARPER; 9 The
transformation of famine relief regimes in modern China PIERRE FULLER; 10
Bitter greens and sweet potatoes: food practice and memories of hunger in
rural China ELLEN OXFELD; 11 "Groveling for lentils": the culture and memory
of food scarcity in occupied France PAULA SCHWARTZ; 12 Coping with food
safety risks: information sources and responses by residents in Japan in the
aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident TOMIKO YAMAGUCHI AND JOO-YOUNG
JUNG; 13 Framing food insecurity and the GMO "problem" in transatlantic trade
PATRICIA A. STAPLETON
Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College, Vermont, where she is the director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. She is the editor or co-editor of five books that focus on various dimensions of international and global crises.
Molly D. Anderson is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies and Academic Director of Food Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont. She works on food system transformations toward greater resilience and sustainability, the right to food, and the intersections of civil society and academic perspectives.
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