Food, Dependency and Dispossession critiques the global industrial agriculture system, highlighting how corporate consolidation, sovereign debt and neoliberalism are driving environmental degradation and dependency while displacing farmers. The book unmasks imperialist strategies repackaged as ‘humanitarianism’, exemplified by entities like the Gates Foundation.
The 2020-21 Indian farmers’ protest is discussed in some depth, as well as the decades-long plan for the foreign takeover of India’s agriculture. There is an emphasis on the struggle for food sovereignty and the preservation of highly productive, traditional farming methods.
The book also looks at potential solutions such as agroecology and localisation and critically examines urban-centric development.
