Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Copyright page / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Dedication Page / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Acknowledgments / Wilma A. Dunaway -- List of Tables and Figures / Wilma A. Dunaway -- List of Abbreviations / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Introduction / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 1 The Asian Fishery Crisis, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Food Insecurity / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 2 Debt, Resource Exploitation and Integration into the World Agro-Food System / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 3 Globalized Food and Asian Hunger / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 4 Commodity-Chained Peasants / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 5 The World Does Not Weep for Us / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 6 Endlessly Toiling / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 7 Climate Change, Land Grabbing and the Future of Asian Food Security / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Chapter 8 Propping Up the World Food System / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Bibliography / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Index / Wilma A. Dunaway.

East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world’s hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the world’s fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food system, these Asian fisheries export their most nutritious foods and import less healthy substitutes. Worldwide, their exports sell cheap because women, the hungriest Asians, provide unpaid subsidies to production processes. In the 21st century, Asian peasants produce more than 60 percent of the regional food supply, but their survival is threatened by hunger, public depreasantization policies, climate change, land grabbing, urbanization and debt bondage.

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