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Title

  • How the world hunger problem was not solved

Summary

  • "The world food crisis (1972-1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use 'modern' inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capitalism. Together with an in-depth account of the world food crisis, this book analyses how this global scheme largely failed. It shows its diverse initiators, their reasoning and motives, its political breakthrough, the degrees to which it was implemented globally and nationally in the following decades and its socioeconomic effects in rural areas. Despite internationally coordinated policies and coercive means, the scheme failed on all levels: situation analysis, design, policies, incapable institutions (including big business), implementation and peasants' responses. Selective realization in certain regions and for certain crops and the appropriation of funds by local elites often aggravated inequality and hunger. Case studies are about Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania and Mali. The book shows limits to global social engineering, imperialism and state control. It aims at students, scholars, activists and non-specialists interested in development and the world food problem"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Gerlach, Christian, 1963- author

Created / Published

  • London ; New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Headings

  • -  Food supply--History--20th century
  • -  Food security--History--20th century
  • -  Food prices--History--20th century

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HD9000.5

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023041959

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  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • epub
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gerlach, Christian, Author. How the World Hunger Problem Was Not Solved. London ; New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023041959/.

APA citation style:

Gerlach, C. (2024) How the World Hunger Problem Was Not Solved. London ; New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023041959/.

MLA citation style:

Gerlach, Christian, Author. How the World Hunger Problem Was Not Solved. London ; New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023041959/>.