A searing indictment of big agri-businesses ... A sane and passionate plea to reorder the global food economy ... The book ... should find a place in our bookshelf.

Economic and Political Weekly

A sweeping overview of the contradictions and crises in the global food economy.

Food Ethics

This is the book I have been waiting for. Tony Weis gives an ecological foundation to analysis of food regimes, something that many of us having been attempting in less capable ways for some time

Harriet Friedmann, Journal of Agrarian Change

I hadn't imagined that a small book could do justice to so large a topic before I read Tony Weis on the global food economy - it's necessary and terrific: intellectually rigorous and informative, full of insight and provocation.

Henry Bernstein, SOAS

Finally, a book summarizing the current state of agricultural policies that my mother could read, and that can stand up to a critical eye…In this effort, Weis succeeds with flying colours

K.R. Avilés-Vásquez, Development and Change

'A patient and enthusiastic insight into a key aspect of international development and environmentalism.

Praise for the First Edition, Red Pepper