Hungry for profit
Subtitle: the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment
By: edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel
Contributors: Magdoff, Fred, 1942-; Foster, John Bellamy; Buttel, Frederick H
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Agricultural industries; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Sustainable agriculture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: An overview / Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster and Frederick H. Buttel; title: The agrarian origins of capitalism / Ellen Meiksins Wood; title: Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility : relevance for today's agriculture / John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff; title: Concentration of ownership and control in agriculture / William D. Heffernan; title: Ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for truly sustainable farming / Miguel A. Altieri; title: The maturing of capitalist agriculture : farmer as proletarian / R.C. Lewontin; title: New agricultural biotechnologies : the struggle for democratic choice / Gerard Middendorf ... [et al.]; title: Global food politics / Philip McMichael; title: The great global enclosure of our times : peasants and the agrarian question at the end of the twentieth century / Farshad Araghi; title: Organizing U.S. farm workers : a continuous struggle / Linda C. Majka and Theo J. Majka; title: Rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up / Elizabeth Henderson; title: Want amid plenty : from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck; title: Cuba : a successful case study of sustainable agriculture / Peter M. Rosset; title: The importance of land reform in the reconstruction of China / Wiliam Hinton