Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-333) and index.

Food wars / Walden Bello and Mara Baviera -- The world food crisis in historical perspective / Philip McMichael -- Sub-Saharan Africa's vanishing peasantries and the specter of a global food crisis / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- Origins of the food crisis in India and developing countries / Utsa Patnaik -- Free trade in agriculture: a bad idea whose time is done / Sophia Murphy -- Biofuels and the global food crisis / Brian Tokar -- The new farm owners: corporate investors and the control of overseas farmland / GRAIN -- The globalization of agribusiness and developing world food systems / John Wilkinson -- The battle for sustainable agriculture in Paraguay / April Howard -- Fixing our global food system: food sovereignty and redistributive land reform / Peter Rosset -- From food crisis to food sovereignty: the challenge of social movements / Eric Holt-Giménez -- Do increased energy costs offer opportunities for a new agriculture? / Frederick Kirschenmann -- Reducing energy inputs in the agricultural production system / David Pimentel -- Agroecology, small farms, and food sovereignty / Miguel A. Altieri -- The Venezuelan effort to build a new food and agriculture system / Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro -- Can ecological agriculture feed nine billion people? / Jules Pretty.