Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty2017

"This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision its distinctive system of ever-expanding consumption with food.0'Political ecology, food regimes, and food sovereignty' explores whether there are environmental limits to capitalism and its economic growth by addressing the ongoing and inter-linked crises of food, fossil fuels, and finance. It also considers its political limits, as the globally burgeoning ?precariat?, peasants and indigenous people resist the further commodification of their livelihoods.0This book draws from the field...