Hungry for profit: the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Monthly Review Press ©2000
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Beschreibung: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 [and others] -- 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 / William Hinton
Includes bibliographical references and index
Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species diversity. This penetrating set of essays explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agri
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