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  • Food

    by Jennifer Clapp ...
    Series series Resources
    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 ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Titans of Industrial Agriculture

    How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters

    by Jennifer Clapp ...
    Series series One Planet
    How a small handful of giant transnational corporations has come to dominate the farm inputs sector, why it matters, and what can be done about it.Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricultural inputs are a huge sector of the global economy, the lion’s share of that market is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Global Food Crisis

    Governance Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Jennifer Clapp, Marc J. Cohen ...
    Series series Studies in International Governance
    The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture.In ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • The Illicit Global Economy and State Power

    by Peter Andreas, Jennifer Clapp, H Richard Friman, Eric Helleiner, William O. Walker III, Prof. Louise Shelley ...
    Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, migrants, weapons, toxic waste, and dirty money, are proliferating on a global scale. This underexplored, clandestine side of globalization has emerged as an increasingly important source of conflict and cooperation among nation-states, state agents, nonstate actors, and international organizations. Contrary to scholars and policymakers ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality

    Edited by Rorden Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that caused a collapse in the US housing market ushered in a broader economic crisis that reverberated throughout the global financial system ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Hunger in the Balance

    The New Politics of International Food Aid

    by Jennifer Clapp ...
    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 ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    The Babys Own Aesop (Unabridged)

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    by WALTER CRANE ...
    Narrated by Fred Tripp, Jennifer Clapp, Martha Kerr, Christin Green ...

    Unabridged

    29 min

    Embark on a whimsical journey through the world of Aesop's fables, specially crafted for little listeners! "The Baby's Own Aesop," narrated with playful charm, brings to life classic tales like the sly fox and the sour grapes, the helpful wind and the grumpy sun, and the brave mouse who outwits the mighty lion. With Walter Crane's delightful illustrations coming alive in your imagination, this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    by Roger C. Riddell ...
    Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The End Of Food

    by Paul Roberts ...
    Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Failure of Global Capitalism

    From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

    by Terry Gibbs, PhD, Garry Leech, MA ...
    What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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