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Hungry for profit : the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment / edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2000.Description: 248 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1583670165 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1 MAG
Contents:
1. The agrarian origins of capitalism ; 2. Liebig marx and the depletion of soil fertility relevance for todays agriculture ; 3. Concentration of ownership and control in agriculture ; 4. Ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for truly sustainable farming ; 5. The maturing of capitalist agriculture farmer as proletarian ; 6. New agricultural biotechnologies the struggle for democratic choice ; 7. Global food politics ; 8. The great global enclosure of our times peasants and the agrarian question at the end of the twentieth century ; 9. Organizing us farm workers a continuous struggle ; 10. Rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up ; 11. Want amid plenty from hunger to inequality ; 12. Cuba a successful case study of sustainable agriculture ; 13. The importance of land reform in the reconstruction of china .
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1. The agrarian origins of capitalism ;
2. Liebig marx and the depletion of soil fertility relevance for todays agriculture ;
3. Concentration of ownership and control in agriculture ;
4. Ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for truly sustainable farming ;
5. The maturing of capitalist agriculture farmer as proletarian ;
6. New agricultural biotechnologies the struggle for democratic choice ;
7. Global food politics ;
8. The great global enclosure of our times peasants and the agrarian question at the end of the twentieth century ;
9. Organizing us farm workers a continuous struggle ;
10. Rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up ;
11. Want amid plenty from hunger to inequality ;
12. Cuba a successful case study of sustainable agriculture ;
13. The importance of land reform in the reconstruction of china .