豊かな国々では、飢餓よりも肥満の方が深刻な問題になっています。安くて便利な食品に満足していた消費者は、安全で栄養価が高く、新鮮で、地元の農家が少ない化学薬品で栽培した食品を求めるようになりました。補助金が少なく、厳しい規制の下に置かれている企業的農業は、環境保護団体や消費者団体からの反発を受け、食品会社は監視の目にさらされています。複雑さを増す食料システムを支配する力はどこから来るものなのでしょうか。
第3版はこの10年間に起きた変化を網羅すべく、食品市場の現実、農家の生産方法、食品製造、食生活における健康上の課題など、世界的な食料事情について最新の動向と研究を反映しています。新たに盛り込まれたトピックとして、世界の食品市場や食料政策における中国の台頭、気候変動による農業への衰えることのない増大するリスク、パンデミックが所得と飢餓に与えた影響、ウクライナ戦争が食糧価格と貿易に与えた衝撃的な影響、画期的な科学的・技術的進歩を背景とする作物のゲノム編集（CRISPR）や動物を使わない細胞培養食肉などがあります。そのほか、人口増加、飢餓と食料安全保障、貿易摩擦、人道支援、炭素農法、再生農業、ホリスティック放牧、動物福祉、遺伝子組み換え食品など、各章で紹介しているデータも更新しています。
現代の食料システムを支配する政治と政策について論じ、農業と食料に関する現在もてはやされている考え方の多くに批判的な目を向ける本書は、食料政策について理解すべきことを幅広く盛り込んだ必読の書です。
   

• Concise, straightforward introduction to the range of phenomena the media has dubbed "food politics"
• Covers the politics of government policies on both food and farming over a wide range of countries and issue areas
• Includes clear and lively writing in an accessible Q&A format

New to this Edition:

• Thoroughly updated to discuss the latest developments and research on today's global food landscape, including the realities of modern farm production, global food markets, conflicts, COVID-19, climate, and dietary health challenges
• Includes an expanded focus on food policy and politics in the United States
• New chapters feature discussions on several issue areas: the rise of China in global food politics, increasing risks to farming from climate change, COVID-19 and its diverse impacts on global food markets, the war in Ukraine and its effects on food supply chains, the genome editing of crops (CRISPR), and the marketing of animal-free meats

  
Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape.
  
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, and food companies are under the microscope. Where does power lie in this increasingly complex global food system? Moreover, what is the future of food politics, both in the United States and beyond?
  
The third edition of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments and research on today's global food landscape, including the realities of food markets, farm production methods, food manufacturing, and dietary health challenges. New material covers the rise of China in world food markets and global food politics, the unabated and increasing risks to farming from climate change, the impact COVID-19 had on incomes and hunger, the equally shocking impact from the war in Ukraine on food prices and trade, and surprising scientific and technical breakthroughs such as the genome editing of crops (CRISPR) and the marketing of cell-cultured (animal-free) meats. As well, each chapter has been updated with new data on population growth, hunger and food security, trade conflicts, humanitarian aid, carbon farming, regenerative agriculture, holistic grazing, animal welfare, genetically engineered food, and more.
   
Discussing the politics and policies that continue to shape our contemporary food system, Robert Paarlberg challenges myths and critiques more than a few of today's fashionable beliefs about farming and food. For those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed, but also challenged, this is the book to read.