The Great Climate Robbery connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples’ struggles over food to climate change. This book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations control the food system and provide the analysis needed to challenge this control.

GRAIN is an international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

Their support takes the form of independent research and analysis, networking at local, regional, and international levels, and fostering new forms of cooperation and alliance-building. Most of GRAIN’s work is oriented towards, and carried out in, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Henk Hobbelink is an agronomist and member of the GRAIN collective.

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“Climate crisis, toxic industrial agriculture and dirty energy: this publication shows the links are not incidental but orchestrated by a warped system that must be straightened out.”

Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, author of To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa

“The time has come to change the system, not the climate. Our farmers and indigenous peoples can cool the planet!”

Edgardo Garcia, International Coordinating Committee, Via Campesina

“Food, land and seeds: protecting them is as essential to climate justice as rooftop solar, wind co-ops, or democratic public transit. This book lifts up the voices of indigenous and peasant farmers around the world, comprehensively explaining why their fight to stop the industrial food juggernaut is the same as the fight for a habitable, just planet.”

Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine