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Agriculture and Food in Crisis
Author | : Fred Magdoff,Brian Tokar |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781583673904 |
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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 share a focus on investigating how agricultural production is shaped by a system that is oriented around the creation of profit above all else, with food as nothing but an afterthought. As the authors make clear, it is technically possible to feed to world’s people, but it is not possible to do so as long as capitalism exists. Toward that end, they examine what can be, and is being, done to create a human-centered and ecologically sound system of food production, from sustainable agriculture and organic farming on a large scale to movements for radical land reform and national food sovereignty. This book will serve as an indispensible guide to the years ahead, in which world politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food politics.
Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture
Author | : Rami Zurayk,Eckart Woertz,Rachel Bahn |
Publsiher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781786393647 |
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This volume sets out to explore the dialectic relating agriculture, crisis and conflict, and attempts to expand the knowledge on these interactions. Part 1 of the volume (chapters 1-6) discusses thematic issues and methodological approaches to understanding the intersection of agriculture, crisis and conflict. Part 2 (chapters 7-20) provides case studies that take a detailed approach to understanding agricultural contexts facing crisis and conflict, or the role played by agriculture within crisis and conflict. Studies are selected from areas that might be expected to feature in such a volume (the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America) as well as less obvious regions where conflict within agriculture refers not to widespread violence or wars but rather latent or simmering crisis (Central Asia and Europe). Crises stemming from politically-driven violence, natural disasters and climate change are covered, as well as competition over resources.
Food Systems Failure
Author | : Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781136529429 |
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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Crisis and Opportunity
Author | : John E. Ikerd |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780803217447 |
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With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. Here one of the most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture explains what this means. These engaging essays describe what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed. Together they constitute a clear and compelling vision for rebalancing the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of agriculture to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future. In Crisis and Opportunity, John E. Ikerd outlines the consequences of agricultural industrialization, then details the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility to our agricultural system and thus ensure sustainable agriculture as the foundation of a sustainable food system and a sustainable society.
Agriculture and the Great Depression
Author | : Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2022-12-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781000640571 |
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What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long- term perspectives on the primary sector. The monograph brings together the voices of an international panel of contributors who examine issues such as falling prices, industrial production, unemployment and the stagnation of aggregate demand. Together, they frame the interwar period as a pivotal turning point in the decline of subsistence agriculture and the growth of agricultural subsidies, which remain a key policy tool in many economies today. This illuminating book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in economic history, agricultural history, globalization and economic development.
Crisis in Soviet Agriculture
Author | : Stefan Hedlund |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781000681703 |
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This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union. It addresses the crisis in Soviet agriculture of the early 1980s, examining the problems of low productivity, adverse natural conditions and an underdeveloped infrastructure. The book’s analysis of the ‘crisis’ focuses on the growing gap between demand and supply of agricultural produce, and the pressures on the government to alleviate the food shortages.
The Agricultural Crisis 1920 1923
Author | : League of Nations. Economic Committee |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : OCLC:12395253 |
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A History of World Agriculture
Author | : Marcel Mazoyer,Laurence Roudart |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781583671214 |
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Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.