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Foreword by Walden Bello ix
1 Introduction to the Global Food Crisis 1
Part One – The Real Story Behind The World Food Crisis 5
2 Hunger, Harvests and Profits: The Tragic Records of the Global Food Crisis 6
3 Root Causes: How the Industrial Agrifoods Complex Ate the Global South 23
4 The Overproduction of Hunger: Uncle Sam's Farm and Food Bill 60
5 Agrofuels: A Bad Idea at the Worst Possible Time 68
6 Summing Up the Crisis 81
Part Two – What We Can Do About It 83
7 Overcoming the Crisis: Transforming the Food System 84
8 Africa and the End of Hunger 130
9 The Challenge of Food Sovereignty in Northern Countries 159
10 Epilogue 178
Appendix 1: Civil Society Statement on the World Food Emergency 185
Appendix 2: Land, Territory and Dignity Forum, Porto Alegre, March 6–9, 2006 194
Appendix 3: ROPPA—Pan-African Farmers’ Platform 201
Appendix 4: Declarations of the African Organizations— Planet Diversity, May 12–16, 2008 204
Appendix 5: Africa: 25th FAO Africa Conference— African Women’s Statement 206
Appendix 6: High-Level Meeting on Food Security, Madrid, January 26–27, 2009 211
Appendix 7: US Call to Action 214
Appendix 8: Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture 216
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