The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict Between Food Security and Food Sovereignty by Raj Patel
This book examines the global conflict between food security and food sovereignty. Raj Patel explores the political, economic, and social implications of food production and consumption, from the local to the global level. He examines the role of governments, corporations, and civil society in the struggle for food justice, and
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, healthy food. The availability of food for people of any class, gender, status, ethnicity, or religion is another element of food protection. Similarly, household food security is considered to exist when all the members of a family have consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food-secure individuals do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. Food security includes resilience to future disruptions of food supply. Such a disruption could occur due to various risk factors such as droughts and floods, shipping disruptions, fuel shortages, economic instability, and wars. Food insecurity is the opposite of food security: a state where there is only limited or uncertain availability of suitable food.