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Author : Michael Perelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036605207
The myth of agricultural efficiency; Developing agriculture for profit; Capital conquers the countryside; The global domain of capital; Myth and economics.
Author : Fred Magdoff,John Bellamy Foster,Frederick H. Buttel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583670156
Millions 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.
Author : Fan, Shenggen,Brzeska, Joanna,Keyzer, Michiel,Halsema, Alex
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896295582
This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet emerging risks and challenges. Main Findings Smallholder farmers in developing countries play a key role in meeting the future food demands of a growing and increasingly rich and urbanized population. However, smallholders are not a homogeneous group that should be supported at all costs. Whereas some smallholder farmers have the potential to undertake profitable commercial activities in the agricultural sector, others should be supported in exiting agriculture and seeking nonfarm employment opportunities. For smallholder farmers with profit potential, their ability to be successful is hampered by such challenges as climate change, price shocks, limited financing options, and inadequate access to healthy and nutritious food. By overcoming these challenges, smallholders can move from subsistence to commercially oriented agricultural systems, increase their profits, and operate at an efficient scalethereby helping to do their part in feeding the worlds hungry.
Author : Joseph Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134183425
The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; the shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order; structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies; trade liberalization and free trade agreements; famine and humanitarian interventions; and the thrid worldization of developed nations.
Author : John W. Warnock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000113808
Originally published in 1987. This important and provocative book explains the persistence of hunger, poverty, and the lack of balanced development in many countries and the central role of agriculture in economic development. Most theories of agricultural development are based on the experiences of western Europe and the United States while the two models for successful "late development" have been Japan and the Soviet Union. This book surveys the evolution of agriculture under colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and concludes that this long period distorted the development prospects for these areas and retarded the production of food. Under strong state capitalist governments, a few underdeveloped countries have broken the colonial patterns of development. However, other post-revolutionary societies are having far less success because of economic blockades and outside military intervention. While the primary focus of the book is on the short-run problems of inequality, the author examines the long-run ecological and resource constraints to a sustainable food system and raising the standard of living in the underdeveloped world.
Author : Michael Huesemann,Joyce Huesemann
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781550924947
Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known as modern industrial civilization, without demanding any fundamental changes in our behavior. There is a pervasive belief that technological innovation will enable us to continue our current lifestyle indefinitely and will prevent social, economic and environmental collapse. Techno-Fix shows that negative unintended consequences of technology are inherently predictable and unavoidable, techno-optimism is completely unjustified, and modern technology, in the presence of continued economic growth, does not promote sustainability, but hastens collapse. The authors demonstrate that most technological solutions to social and technology-created problems are ineffective. They explore the reasons for the uncritical acceptance of new technologies, show who really controls the direction of technological change, and then advocate extensive reform. This comprehensive exposé is a powerful argument for why we can and should put the genie back in the bottle. An insightful and powerful critique, it is required reading for anyone who is concerned about blind techno-optimism and believes that the time has come to make science and technology more socially and environmentally responsible. For more information, please visit technofix.org .
Author : Joseph N. Belden,Vincent P. Wilber,Enid Kassner,Rus Sykes,Ed Cooney,Lynn Parker,Alan Sanders,Cynthia Schneider,Marsha Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000682427
This book, first published in 1986, is a major reference work for the political discussions arising out of the 1985 Congress revisions of US food and farm laws. It covers production, distribution and consumption of food, analyses international as well as domestic problems, and presents new ways forward. Emphasising public policy and programmes, the book has chapters on agricultural production; environmental and resource problems; food marketing; domestic hunger and nutrition; and world hunger and development.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Power resources
ISBN : UCBK:C108567544
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3895 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000398144
Reissuing works originally published between 1952 and 1999, this set provides a wide spread of scholarship on issues surrounding food provision throughout the world. The earlier books look at import and export changes during times when previous trade routes and options changed while later ones mostly consider food assistance policies, poverty and famine, and welfare. These books cover third world studies, economics, anthropology, politics, environment, agriculture and population studies as well as food and nutrition.
Author : Henry Bernstein,Maureen Mackintosh,Charlotte Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134157945
Wasteful over-consumption (by some) in the developed countries and the continuing, in some cases worsening, hunger of millions in the Third World is a dramatic indication that food problems are urgent. Anger is not enough and this book, which comes from the research group on Development Policy and Practice in the Open University (DPP), aims to provide some of the analytical tools needed for serious action. Case studies to show ways in which food aid has been used by donor countries for political ends; descriptions of the relationships between markets and human needs; articles on the problems associated with the feminization of poverty; pieces on patterns and trends of food production; analysis of land reform; an evaluation of the effects of biotechnology are all part of this rich and lively collection of articles written specially for this book.
Author : Leon F. Hesser
Publisher : Leon Hesser
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1930754906
The Man Who Fed the World provides a loving and respectful portrait of one of America's greatest heroes. Nobel Peace Prize recipient for averting hunger and famine, Dr. Norman Borlang is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives from starvation-more than any other person in history? Loved by millions around the world, Dr. Borlang is recognized as one of the most influential men of the twentieth century.
Author : R.C. Fluck
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780444597816
This last volume of the Energy in World Agriculture series is in many ways the series' Alpha and its Omega. It addresses the broad issues related to the use of energy in agricultural production, and also characterizes and quantifies the energy involvements of many agricultural production technologies. It is a compilation of descriptive and analytical information and design principles and data of energy use in this field. A significant aspect is the relationship between energy and agricultural productivity, increased knowledge and resulting improved management of energy-consuming operations on the farm. Information provided here has not been published elsewhere before. Throughout the book are examples of the important role that energy inputs have played in increasing productivity of the world's agricultural systems. Together with a revived interest in energy for agricultural production due to increases in energy costs, this volume meets that interest with valuable information and insights.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010163966
Author : Barry Price
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000304510
For more than a decade the trend toward increased mechanization in U.S. agriculture has been the source of farm worker protests, legislative hearings, and lawsuits. (The recent case pitting the University of California’s prestigious agriculture research establishment against Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is a prominent example of such litigation.) A key question in the controversy is whether federal and state governments should continue to invest more than $1 billion per year in the development of large-scale, capital-intensive technologies known to have significant social costs. Opponents of continued public support for these new technologies argue that they will eliminate thousands of farm jobs when the nation already suffers from a serious unemployment problem; proponents contend that such capital-intensive technologies keep food prices down for consumers while generating the potential for increased wages for farm workers. This book explores both sides of the debate, tracing the history of the mechanization issue and assessing the economic and sociological bases of the opposing positions. Maintaining that present methods of analysis are not adequate for resolving the conflict, Professor Price suggests an alternative approach, highlighted by a detailed case study of the costs and benefits generated by a new harvest technology adopted in the tomato-processing industry in California. He singles out the role of market structure as the most important variable in the distribution of benefits resulting from mechanization. Finally he relates his research findings to policy alternatives concerning farm mechanization in general, as well as to other problems involving technological change.
Author : Robert Goodland
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429716348
Addressing the problem of the high cost of agricultural development in tropical regions, this book summarizes the environmental concerns associated with tropical agriculture. The authors highlight major environmental hazards confronted in tropical agriculture and suggest specific management options that could be used to reduce or avoid them. The fi
