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.