Food for All

'I welcome John Madeley's new book as another contribution to the debate on world hunger and the role of agriculture. His long experience in this field has enabled him to draw together many strands in this synthetic volume and I hope that it will help to stimulate decision-makers to muster the necessary political will and resources to tackle the scourges of hunger and under-nutrition that still affect more than 800 million people worldwide. With the prospect of continued growth in the world's population in the coming decades, the role of agriculture is pivotal to the final eradication of hunger.' - Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 'John Madeley unmasks the global effort to deprive the South of its ability to feed itself, to shift the focus from self-reliance to complete dependence and to move from sustainable farming practices to environment-unfriendly industrial agricultural systems. This book brings out clearly the machinations being used to bulldoze developing country agriculture and food sovereignty and that too in the name of feeding the poor and hungry.' - Devinder Sharma, food and trade policy analyst, New Delhi 'A timely book illustrating how a great range of technologies and processes are promoting transitions towards agricultural sustainability that are in turn improving both environments and the lives of the poor.' - Professor Jules Pretty, University of Essex 'Food for All is a good and very well-written introduction to agricultural development and John Madeley makes a strong case for small-scale, sustainable agriculture as the means to achieve food security for the two billion people who currently lack it. He covers a huge range of issues, including trade, gender, credit, land rights and the record of the World Bank and UN agencies' - New Agriculturalist