Global crisis in agriculture and food
Monthly Review, July-August 2009, Vol 61, Number 3
This issue of Monthly Review (available free online) has a series of penetrating articles on the global crisis in agriculture and food. If you want to understand the international context for our current food and agro-industry problems, these articles will give you valuable insight into the big picture. Some of the article titles and authors are:
- An Overview of the Food and Agriculture Crisis, by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar
- Food Wars, by Walden Bellow and Mara Baviera
- The World Food Crisis in Historical Perspective, by Philip McMichael
- Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time is Done, by Sophia Murphy
- Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System, by David Pimentel
- Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty, by Miguel A. Altieri
- Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform, by Peter Rosset