Endless appetites [[electronic resource] ] : how the commodities casino creates hunger and unrest / / Alan Bjerga

• Autore: Bjerga Alan
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Bloomberg Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.8
• Soggetto topico: Food prices; Food security
• Classificazione: BUS027000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest; Contents; Author's Note; Prologue; Chapter 1: Floors, Fields, and Famines; Chapter 2: Chicago Makes a Market; Chapter 3: Elephants in the Kiddie Pool; Chapter 4: A Recipe for Famine; Chapter 5: The View from Rome; Chapter 6: Hot Air; Chapter 7: Promise; Chapter 8: The Price of a Cup of Coffee; Chapter 9: A Better Banana; Chapter 10: Thai Quality; Chapter 11: Steps Up; Chapter 12: Harvest of Hope; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index; Photo Insert
• Sommario/riassunto: How to understand the twenty-first century food crisis Since 2007, farm-product prices have rocketed and plunged, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how ""food security,"" the availability of food and the reasonable ability to buy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time. With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more and more pressing, proven by this year's record increase in food prices, which has already topped the spike of 2008. Award-winning commodities r
• Titolo autorizzato: Endless appetites
• ISBN: 1-118-16959-X; 1-283-28295-X; 9786613282958; 1-118-16961-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781471103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bloomberg