The great climate robbery

how the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it

The great climate robbery provides valuable information about how the industrial food system causes climate change, how food and agribusiness corporations are getting away with it, and what can be done to turn things around. The various chapters in this collection document the ill effects of this industrial food system such as the growing hunger, the destruction of rural peoples’ livelihoods, the loss of biodiversity and cultures, the exploitation of labour and a range of health calamities.

This timely anthology by the international NGO Grain shows how food sovereignty is critical to any lasting and just solution to climate change. With governments, particularly those from the main polluting countries, abdicating their responsibility to deal with the problem, it has become ever more critical for people to take action into their own hands. Changing the food system is perhaps the most important and effective place to start.

The great climate robbery will help readers to better understand the ways in which corporations seek to increase their control over the food system so that

this control can be more effectively challenged.

Food, land and seeds: protecting them is as essential to climate justice as rooftop solar, wind co-ops, or democratic public transit. This book lifts up the

voices of indigenous and peasant farmers around the world, comprehensively explaining why their fight to stop the industrial food juggernaut is the same as

the fight for a habitable, just planet.

— Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine

This book is a must read for movements addressing climate change as well as Seed and Food Sovereignty. It shows that industrial corporate agriculture is a major part of the climate crisis, and small scale ecological farming is a significant solution. It also alerts us to the false solutions being offered by those who

created the problem - the Exxons of Agriculture.

— Dr Vandana Shiva, author of Soil, Not Oil and Making Peace with the Earth

Essential reading for all of us seeking to make this world a better place


ISBN: 9781742199917

RRP: $27.95

eBook: $17.95

Extent: 246

Rights: AUS & NZ

Release Date:

December 2015

Non-Fiction

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