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Agriculture and food in crisis : conflict, resistance, and renewal /

The failures of "free-market" capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to suffer from hunger or fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Magdoff, Fred, 1942-, Tokar, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Food wars / Walden Bello and Mara Baviera
  • The world food crisis in historical perspective / Philip McMichael
  • Sub-Saharan Africa's vanishing peasantries and the specter of a global food crisis / Deborah Fahy Bryceson
  • Origins of the food crisis in India and developing countries / Utsa Patnaik
  • Free trade in agriculture: a bad idea whose time is done / Sophia Murphy
  • Biofuels and the global food crisis / Brian Tokar
  • The new farm owners: corporate investors and the control of overseas farmland / GRAIN
  • The globalization of agribusiness and developing world food systems / John Wilkinson
  • The battle for sustainable agriculture in Paraguay / April Howard
  • Fixing our global food system: food sovereignty and redistributive land reform / Peter Rosset
  • From food crisis to food sovereignty: the challenge of social movements / Eric Holt-Giménez
  • Do increased energy costs offer opportunities for a new agriculture? / Frederick Kirschenmann
  • Reducing energy inputs in the agricultural production system / David Pimentel
  • Agroecology, small farms, and food sovereignty / Miguel A. Altieri
  • The Venezuelan effort to build a new food and agriculture system / Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro
  • Can ecological agriculture feed nine billion people? / Jules Pretty.