Agriculture and food in crisis : conflict, resistance, and renewal / edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magdoff, Fred, 1942-

Tokar, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nutrition policy.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Agriculture and Food in Crisis: An Overview; PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE AGRIFOOD CRISIS; 1. Food Wars; 2. The World Food Crisis in Historical Perspective; 3. Sub-Saharan Africa's Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis; 4. Origins of the Food Crisis in India and Developing Countries; 5. Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time Is Done; 6. Biofuels and the Global Food Crisis; 7. The New Farm Owners: Corporate Investors and the Control of Overseas Farmland; 8. The Globalization of Agribusiness and Developing World Food Systems

PART TWO: RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL9. The Battle for Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay; 10. Fixing Our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform; 11. From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements; 12. Do Increased Energy Costs Offer Opportunities for a New Agriculture?; 13. Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System; 14. Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty; 15. The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System; 16. Can Ecological Agriculture Feed Nine Billion People?; About the Authors; Notes; Index

AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-58367-390-3

1-58367-391-1

OCLC:

823170562