Agriculture In Crisis

Author : Fred Magdoff,Brian Tokar
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781583673904

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Agriculture and Food in Crisis by Fred Magdoff,Brian Tokar Pdf

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.

Author : Rami Zurayk,Eckart Woertz,Rachel Bahn
Publisher : CABI
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786393647

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Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture by Rami Zurayk,Eckart Woertz,Rachel Bahn Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136529429

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Food Systems Failure by Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John E. Ikerd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780803217447

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Crisis and Opportunity by John E. Ikerd Pdf

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.

Author : Tom Philpott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781635573145

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Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott Pdf

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott. More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate interests have put American agriculture into a state of "quiet emergency," from dangerous drought in California--which grows more than 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables we eat--to catastrophic topsoil loss in the "breadbasket" heartland of the United States. Whether or not we take heed, these urgent crises of industrial agriculture will define our future. In Perilous Bounty, veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores and exposes the small handful of seed and pesticide corporations, investment funds, and magnates who benefit from the trends that imperil us, with on-the-ground dispatches featuring the scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists who are valiantly and inventively pushing back. Resource scarcity looms on the horizon, but rather than pointing us toward an inevitable doomsday, Philpott shows how the entire wayward ship of American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles the farmers and communities in the nation's two key growing regions developing resilient, soil-building, water-smart farming practices, and readying for the climate shocks that are already upon us; and he explains how we can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream.

Author : Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000640571

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Agriculture and the Great Depression by Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino Pdf

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.

Author : Marcel Mazoyer,Laurence Roudart
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671214

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A History of World Agriculture by Marcel Mazoyer,Laurence Roudart Pdf

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.

Author : Stefan Hedlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000681703

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Crisis in Soviet Agriculture by Stefan Hedlund Pdf

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.

Author : League of Nations. Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:12395253

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The Agricultural Crisis, 1920-1923 by League of Nations. Economic Committee Pdf

Author : theodore w. schultz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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economic crises in world agriculture by theodore w. schultz Pdf

Author : Robert G. Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469615882

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Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America by Robert G. Williams Pdf

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom and who benefited from it, and shows the impact of the boom on land use, the ecology, and the conditions of life in the rural areas.

Author : Dale Pfeiffer
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1550923765

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Eating Fossil Fuels by Dale Pfeiffer Pdf

A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture--and appropriate responses.

Author : Christopher Isett,Stephen Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442209688

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The Social History of Agriculture by Christopher Isett,Stephen Miller Pdf

This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make.

Author : Thomas J. Hynes,William F. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89014540694

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The Agriculture Crisis by Thomas J. Hynes,William F. Campbell Pdf

Author : Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1554581982

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The Global Food Crisis by Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen Pdf

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation