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Hungry for Profit : The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment by John Bellamy Foster (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMonthly Review Press
ISBN-101583670165
ISBN-139781583670163
eBay Product ID (ePID)1136843
Product Key Features
Number of Pages220 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHungry for Profit : the Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment
Publication Year2000
SubjectAgriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental Economics, Industries / Agribusiness
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Business & Economics
AuthorJohn Bellamy Foster
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height9 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-056000
Table Of ContentThe agrarian origins of capitalism, Ellen Meiksins Wood; Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility - relevance for today's agriculture, John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff; agriculture and monopoly capital, William D. Heffernan; ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for sustainable farming, Miguel A. Altiery; the maturing of capitalist agriculture - farmer as proletarian, R.C. Lewontin; new agricultural biotechnologies - the struggle for democratic choice, Gerard Middendorf et al; global food politics, Philip McMichael; rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up, Elizabeth Henderson; want amid plenty - from hunger to inequality, Janet Poppendieck, alternative agriculture works - the case of Cuba, Peter M. Rosset; the importance of land reform in the reconstruction of China, William Hinton; the great global enclosure of our times - peasants and the agrarian question at the beginning of the 21st century; farmworkers in the United States - from unionization to immigration, Linda C. Majka, Theo J. Majka
SynopsisMillions 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 agricultural biotechnologies, and in time and place from early modern Europe to contemporary Cuba, the contributions to Hungry for Profit examine the changes underway in world agriculture today and point the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to problems of food supply., Reviews the changes in world agriculture today and argues for organic, sustainable solutions to world hunger., There is growing popular fear over possible pesticide contamination of food and the microbiological safety of the food supply. This work 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 agricultural biotechnologies, the book addresses the reasons for the expansion of hunger despite the increase of world food supplies, and points the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to the problems of food supply and distribution.
LC Classification NumberHD9000.5.H86 2000
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