In this succinct and clear-eyed assessment of the world's current food crisis, Shiva contends that food and agriculture have become the sites for major paradigm wars and caught in the cross-fire between small producers and corporate giants, are the one billion people in the world who suffer from hunger and malnutrition; and the thousands afflicted with diseases caused by toxins in our food. She advocates a powerful alternative to this scenario: reclaiming the right to food security through sustainable practises that value biodiversity and seed sovereignty, and creating a future in which no one goes hungry.