Free eBooks How The Other Half Dies Available To Downloads
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Paperback
Publisher: Universe Books (May 1977)
ISBN-10: 087663966X
ISBN-13: 978-0876639665
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #16,927,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #92 in Books > Reference > Writing, Research & Publishing Guides > Publishing & Books > Bibliographies & Indexes > Agriculture
Much like other reviewers I read Susan George's book more than 20 years ago when I was an undergraduate part-time arts student.Her basic premise can be summerised-food is grown for profit,not to feed people.She details how the overpopulation myth is used by western governments to create the impression that food shortages and famine are a result of having too many mouths to feed,and insufficient agricultural resources to feed them.She goes on to explain how Agribusiness operates:Local elites are financed by the likes of the World Bank,not to grow food to feed local populations.Rather they are granted loans that will,in the opinion of the World Bank be repayable and increase a country's GNP.Which, in economic terms indicates the Bank's correct loan policy:loan repaid with interest,and GNP increased.Susan George,however,points out the negative effects of placing the economic capacity to control agricultural produce in the hands of a few local elites.The ramifications being a shift from producing food to feed people,whose ancestor's may have worked their native land for thousands of years,providing food,clothing and housing for themselves.These lands, in most cases have fertile soil and,in good times produce abundant crops.However,when flood,drought,or crop failure for any reason occurs,the poor farmers have little choice but to accept the offer of the local elites and sell their land to avoid starvation.They then have little choice,but to relocate to the already overcrowded cities in an attempt to find work.And so,cities have growing slums,poverty,crime,disease and all the other maladies overcrowding and poverty creates.The elites of course do not utilize the land to increase food production,which could provide food for the local population.
How the Other Half Dies Half-Bloods Rising (Half-Elf Chronicles Book 1) Pet Loss: How To Feel Better After Your Pet Dies Die-cutting and Tooling: A guide to the manufacture and use of cutting, embossing and foiling dies, anvils and cylinders ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Survivors: A Guide to Practical and Legal Matters When Someone You Love Dies John Dies @ the End Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) When a Child Dies from Drugs: Practical Help for Parents in Bereavement Love Never Dies: How to Reconnect and Make Peace with the Deceased Evil Never Dies (The Lizzy Gardner Series Book 6) Paramedic Killer - The only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them dies (Medic 7 Series - Book 2) The Good Spy Dies Twice (Bullseye Book 1) SURVIVING THE DEATH OF A SIBLING: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying Letters from Elmer Keith: A Half Century of Advice on Guns, Ammo, Handloading, Hunting, and Other Pursuits The Every-Other-Day Diet: The Diet That Lets You Eat All You Want (Half the Time) and Keep the Weight Off How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
