Includes bibliographical references.

CONTENTS:
Introduction;
The Ideology of Overpopulation;
The Costs of Free Trade: The WTO Regime and the Indian Economy;
The Economic and Demographic Collapse in Russia;
The Loss of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa;
Asia Must Starve to Feed the West: The Rice Debacle in the Philippines;
Peasant Resistance to Globalisation: Chiapas a Symbol;
Mass Income Deflation, Burgeoning Foodstocks;
Foodstocks and Hunger: Causes of Agrarian Distress;
The Republic of Hunger;
Theorising Food Security and Poverty in the Era of Economic Reforms;
It is Time for Kumbhakarna to Wake Up;
Agrarian Crisis under Neo-Imperialism and the Importance of Peasant Resistance;
Index.