Despite rapid developments in science and technology, hunger continues to exist in many parts of the world especially in the Third World. This slender volume presents concrete examples of the inequitable distribution of food globally and locally.
While food experts insist that "every country in the world has the capacity to feed itself," it is predicted that by the year 2000, 65 countries will not be able to feed their own population through their own farming activities. This is all due to the fact that the food and agricultural policies of many Third World countries are structural impositions of external forces.
Part 1 of the work deals with the global picture while Part 2 focuses on the Philippine situation. Both parts show that the "politics of food" has consigned Third World countries to the status of adjuncts of western agribusiness which has transformed them into producers for the world supermarket, to the neglect of their own people's food needs.
 

HD 9016 P5 C65

Distorted priorities, the politics of food

Renato Constantino

Foundation for Nationalist Studies

1988

Food supply--Philippines ; Food supply--Developing countries