Hungry for profit : the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment

Abstract

The 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