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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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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
2010.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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-Gimenez -- 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the contributors to this volume s. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Food security. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01748879 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Infrastructure. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Securite alimentaire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Politique alimentaire. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Food security. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Nutrition policy. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Magdoff, Fred, |d 1942- | |
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