[asia-apec 1738] New Food First Book: Views from the South

[Anuradha Mittal]

New from Food First Books and the International Forum on Globalization

Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third 
World Countries

For more information about Views from the South, or to purchase a copy 
of this book please go to http://www.foodfirst.org

Global free trade in food and agriculture is the biggest refugee 
creation program in the world, far exceeding the impact of Kosovo. It is 
the equivalent to the ethnic cleansing of the poor, the peasantry, and 
small farmers of the Third World.
-Vandana Shiva, author and activist, from her essay in Views from the 
South.

In a time of growing critique of corporate driven globalization Food 
First and the International Forum on Globalization are releasing Views 
from the South. This rare collection of essays by renown Third World 
activists and scholars explain how the policies of the WTO and the 
Bretton Woods institutions are creating economic and environmental 
devastation in the Third World. 

Views from the South explores the effects of globalization and world 
trade policy on the Third World's economies and environment. Each essay 
points out that tenaciously held advantages by wealthy nations under the 
guise of the WTO erode any notion of a free marketplace. Democracy 
within this system was long ago scrapped in favor of consensus by the 
few major players, removing the majority from any effective 
decision-making.

Edited by IFG staff member Sarah Anderson, Views from the South features 
writings by Martin Khor (Malaysia), Walden Bello (Thailand/Philippines), 
Dr. Vananda Shiva (India), Dot Keet (South Africa), Sara Larrain 
(Chile), and Oronto Douglas (Nigeria). Also included is a foreword by 
Jerry Mander, president of the Forum on International Globalization, and 
an afterword by Anuradha Mittal, co-director of Food First/Institute for 
Trade and Development Policy.

About the contributors

- Walden Bello's the most recent book is Siamese Tragedy: Development 
and Disintegration in Modern Thailand (Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 
1998).

- Dr. Vananda Shiva's most recent book is Biopiracy: The Plunder of 
Nature and Knowledge (Boston: South End Press, 1997).

- Jerry Mander's most recent book is The Case Against the Global Economy 
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997)

- Anuradha Mittal's most recent book is America Needs Human Rights 
(Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 1999). 

The International Forum on Globalization is a research and educational 
institution comprised of 60 researchers, activists, scholars, and 
economists from over 25 countries that seeks to stimulate new thinking 
and public activity in response to the rapidly emerging economic and 
political arrangements of the global economy. 

Food First, also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy 
founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappè and Joseph Collins after the 
success of their book Diet for a Small Planet, is a policy think tank 
that carries out research and education-for-action. Food First works to 
identify the root causes of hunger and poverty in the United States and 
around the world, and to educate the public as well as policy makers 
about these problems and alternative solutions to them. 


Views from the South
The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries
Edited by Sarah Anderson
Foreword by Jerry Mander
Afterword by Anuradha Mittal
ISBN: 0-935028-82-X (paperback)
208 pages, paperback, $12.95

Food First Books are distributed by LPC Group, 1436 West Randolph 
Street, Chicago, IL 60607, (800) 243-0138

Read the back cover, browse the table of contents, and purchase this 
book on-line at: http://www.foodfirst.org

Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst at foodfirst.org.

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