Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment. - Softcover

 
9781583670163: Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment.
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1583670165 ISBN 13: 9781583670163
Verlag: Monthly Review Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press).

John Bellamy Foster is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature, which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Frederick Buttel is Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author or editor of several books, including Environment and Modernity (1999).

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Verlag
Monthly Review Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1583670165
ISBN 13 
9781583670163
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
250
Herausgeber
Magdoff Fred, Buttel Frederick H., Foster John Bellamy
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