Agriculture and food in crisis [electronic resource] : conflict, resistance, and renewal / edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar.
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
c2010.
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Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal |
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Contents:
- 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.