Hungry for profit : the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment / edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Magdoff, Fred, 1942-
Foster, John Bellamy
Buttel, Frederick H.
Language:English
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2000], ©2000.
Subjects:
Agricultural industries.
Agriculture > Economic aspects.
Sustainable agriculture.
Physical Description:248 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An overview / Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster and Frederick H. Buttel
  • The agrarian origins of capitalism / Ellen Meiksins Wood
  • Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility : relevance for today's agriculture / John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff
  • Concentration of ownership and control in agriculture / William D. Heffernan
  • Ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for truly sustainable farming / Miguel A. Altieri
  • The maturing of capitalist agriculture : farmer as proletarian / R.C. Lewontin
  • New agricultural biotechnologies : the struggle for democratic choice / Gerard Middendorf ... [et al.]
  • Global food politics / Philip McMichael
  • The great global enclosure of our times : peasants and the agrarian question at the end of the twentieth century / Farshad Araghi
  • Organizing U.S. farm workers : a continuous struggle / Linda C. Majka and Theo J. Majka
  • Rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up / Elizabeth Henderson
  • Want amid plenty : from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck
  • Cuba : a successful case study of sustainable agriculture / Peter M. Rosset
  • The importance of land reform in the reconstruction of China / Wiliam Hinton.