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Why are half the people in the world malnourished, while so many in the West are over-fed? Capitalism may promise cheap, nutritious food for all, but it has failed to deliver on that promise. This is the first book to explore the economics of our food system, and to explain why a quarter of the world's population go hungry despite the fact that enough food is produced worldwide to feed us all.
Robert Albritton analyses the economic conditions that create a simultaneous oversupply and undersupply of food, and the massive implications they have for human health worldwide.
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"[This book] pulls no punches in its analysis . . . To understand how starvation and obesity can coexist in the same populations, follow the flow of capital. Everyone who cares about food equity and the preservation of democracy should read this book." -Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University
"Marx understood the dynamics of the current food crisis over a century ago. Robert Albritton has written a fine primer, bridging the best thinking of the nineteenth century to the urgent needs of the twenty-first." - Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
