Agriculture and food in crisis conflict, resistance, and renewal / edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar.
| Other author | Magdoff, Fred, 1942- |
| Other author | Tokar, Brian. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Monthly Review Press, |
| Description | 348 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-333) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010039982 |
| ISBN | 9781583672266 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1583672265 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781583672273 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1583672273 (cloth) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |