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East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world's hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the world's fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food system, these Asian fisheries export their most nutritious foods and import less healthy substitutes. Worldwide, their exports sell cheap because women, the hungriest Asians, provide unpaid subsidies to production processes. In the 21st century, Asian peasants produce more than 60 percent of the regional food supply, but their survival is threatened by hunger, public depeasantization policies, climate change, land grabbing, urbanization and debt bondage.
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Brief description:
Wilma A. Dunaway, Ph.D. (1994), University of Tennessee. Professor Emerita, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech. In addition to six monographs, she is editor of Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing the Hidden Women's Work and Laborer Households in Global Production.
Maria Cecilia Macabuac, Ph.D. (2005), Virginia Tech. Professor and Director for University Extension, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology. Author of numerous articles about Philippine fisheries, mining communities, women's work and depeasantization. Has extensive experience in ethnographic field research.
Review Quotes: "Where Shrimp Eat Better than People offers a powerful critique of the global-industrial food regime, through the lens of the fish trade's exploitation of Asian fisherfolk and extractive dietary impacts on fishing communities. Ethnographic and socio-ecological analysis of a Philippine coastal region reveals processes of global nutritional bifurcation as local self-provisioning declines. This is a timely and remarkable exposé of the dialectic of impoverishment via enrichment along corporate food supply chains." Philip McMichael, Cornell University.