Jennifer Yvonne Clapp

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (Food, Health, and the Environment)

In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating ...

Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, 2nd Edition

This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in th...

Food (PRS - Polity Resources series)

We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the worldïs population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy over the past decade - including the food price crisis, intensification of land grabs,...

Food (PRS - Polity Resources series)

We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the worldïs population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy over the past decade - including the food price crisis, intensification of land grabs,...

Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment

This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developi...

Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality (Global Institutions)

A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that caused a collapse in the US housing ...

Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries

In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the materials safely. For more than a decade, environmenta...

Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities (Studies in International Governance)

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. "The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities" captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the worlds poorest countries, both for...

Paths To A Green World: The Political Economy Of The Global Environment

Paths To A Green World: The Political Economy Of The Global Environment

Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea