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Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade
by John Madeley, ISBN: 1856498654

General description: As the fallout from the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues, John Madeley explores some key questions about the free trade that it advocates: will free trade in food help or hinder the abolition of world hunger?; who benefits first? the poor? or the transnational corporations?; will free trade help Third World farmers find new international markets?; or will the flood of cheap, subsidized food from the North eliminate them?; how can countries - North and South, rich and poor - protect their farmers?; and how can self-sufficiency in food production be achieved? John Madeley shows that the food imports of many developing countries are rising sharply while their food exports to the industrial countries are not. He exposes the contradictions between Western governments' rhetoric about reducing world poverty and the drive to yet more trade liberalization.

Hungry for Trade by John Madeley ISBN: 1856498654 is a "A timely and important resource for the growing debate on trade and agriculture and the review of the WTO rules that promote trade at the cost of livelihood and food security. John Madeley combines the perspectives of people in the south and north to create another agenda for food based on justice and human rights.' says Vandana Shiva "John Madeley has spent his life advocating the cause of farmers in the poorer countries.. His ability to research complex issues and explain in simple terms how they are damaging the poor is astounding." indicates John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich.