This book looks back on forty years of writings from the Oakland-based Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. The book highlights the breadth and depth of the organization’s published works, addressing issues such as hunger, international trade, US foreign policy, the Green Revolution, agroecology, climate justice, land reform, food and farm workers' rights, and food sovereignty.

Food First: Selected Writings From 40 Years of Movement Building

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Food First

A critique of why Third World poverty is so prevalent. Hunger and malnutrition stalk the countries of the South. Over the last 20 years, as the populations of these countries have increased, so too has mass poverty. In this critical study of Western aid giving, Bello offers a pursuasive argument that re-colonization of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks. Bello argues that "the Reagan Administration came to power with an agenda to discipline the Third World" and in pursuing this policy, the United States pushed the World Bank to shift its resources to "structural adjustment" lending. Such power, Bello asserts, was "used by the Reagan treasury Department to blast open Third World economies" and the consequence of such actions has resulted in lower barriers to reduction of social welfare spending, wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies. Recipients of any lending from the West have been forced to accept these policies, with disastrous consequences.

Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute)

Business & Money

Walden Bello

International

Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World & U.S. Volunteer Opportunities

Reference

Lowenthal, Phil

Catalogs & Directories

first comprehensive history of movement

Basta! : Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas

George A. Collier

Economics

Ajuste estructural en Costa Rica: Una medicina amarga (Colección Análisis) (Spanish Edition)

Korten, Alicia

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