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Record Nr.

UNINA9910753386403321

Autore

Dunaway Wilma A.

Titolo

Where Shrimp Eat Better than People : Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger / / Wilma A. Dunaway and Maria Cecilia Macabuac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9789004522657

9004522654

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023.

Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work ; ; 02.

Disciplina

338.3/72095

Soggetti

Fish trade - Asia

Food security - Asia

Food supply - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Copyright page / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Dedication Page / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Acknowledgments / Wilma A. Dunaway -- List of Tables and Figures / Wilma A. Dunaway -- List of Abbreviations / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Introduction / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 1 The Asian Fishery Crisis, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Food Insecurity / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 2 Debt, Resource Exploitation and Integration into the World Agro-Food System / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 3 Globalized Food and Asian Hunger / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 4 Commodity-Chained Peasants / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 5 The World Does Not Weep for Us / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 6 Endlessly Toiling / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 7 Climate Change, Land Grabbing and the Future of Asian Food Security / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 8 Propping Up the World Food System / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Bibliography / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Index / Wilma A. Dunaway.

Sommario/riassunto

East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world’s hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the



world’s fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food system, these Asian fisheries export their most nutritious foods and import less healthy substitutes. Worldwide, their exports sell cheap because women, the hungriest Asians, provide unpaid subsidies to production processes. In the 21st century, Asian peasants produce more than 60 percent of the regional food supply, but their survival is threatened by hunger, public depreasantization policies, climate change, land grabbing, urbanization and debt bondage.