Agriculture and Food in Crisis
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Agriculture and Food in Crisis by Fred Magdoff
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 indispensable guide to the years ahead, in which world politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food politics.
Tokar, Brian: - Brian Tokar is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Since the 1980s he is an activist, author and well-known critical voice for ecological activism. He serves on the board of 350-Vermont, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology. Tokar has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as an advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto, originally published in The Ecologist, and he has contributed to The Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement, A Line in the Tar Sands, and other recent books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781583672266 |
| ISBN 10 | 1583672265 |
| Title | Agriculture and Food in Crisis |
| Author | Fred Magdoff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2010-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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