Corporate Agriculture
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Agriculture and the Generation ProblemAgrarian Changes and Peasant Studies |
Despite predictions that they are destined to disappear, smallholder or family farms still number more than 500 million worldwide, and account for more than 90 percent of all the world’s … | Ben White | 160 | 2020 | View |
 Good Crop / Bad CropSeed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada |
In recent years Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins of their food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well known is that pesticide … | Devlin Kuyek | 160 | 2007 | View |
 Hungry For ChangeFarmers, Food Justice and The Agrarian Question |
Hunger and obesity sit side by side in the world today because a food system dominated by money, markets and profits allows those with money to obtain above and beyond their needs while those … | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 200 | 2013 | View |
 NEW! Shifting the BalanceHow Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with Data |
Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world’s top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their … | Mark Schrutt | 253 | 2021 | View |
 NEW! The Political Economy of Agrarian ExtractivismLessons from Bolivia |
Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agro-food system, … | Ben M. McKay | 172 | 2020 | View |
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From NEW! Foreword |
Foreword by Cristóbal Kay, The Hague, 2019. | Ben M. McKay | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From The AgrumentFrom: Hungry For Change |
- | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 3 | 2013 | $0.36 Add |
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From NEW! The Generational Dimension in Agrarian Change |
Topics covered in this chapter include: Frameworks and guiding concepts for understanding the generational dimension in agrarian change, and whether there is a crisis of social reproduction … | Ben White | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From TransformationPart I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more. | Devlin Kuyek | 11 | 2007 | $1.10 Add |
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From “Food, Glorious Food!”Dimensions of the Global Subsistence Crisis From: Hungry For Change |
- | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 4 | 2013 | $0.48 Add |
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From NEW! Generationing Agrarian Transformation |
Topics covered in this chapter include: Colonial agrarian transformations, Socialist agrarian transformations, China and the Soviet Union, Corporate Farming, the Green Revolution, and an … | Ben White | 38 | 2020 | $3.80 Add |
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From IndustrializationPart I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 2 explores new models of agribusiness and industrial farming, genetically engineered plants, Canada’s ‘‘farm family’’ image, the National … | Devlin Kuyek | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionAgrarian Change and the Politics of Control |
The Politics of Control: An Analytical Framework Agrarian Dynamics in Bolivia: A Brief Overview Organization of the Argument | Ben M. McKay | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From GerminationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 3 explores the germination process, discussing the history of agricultural practice in Canada from pre-colonization, the adoption of Indigenous crops by white settlers, agricultural … | Devlin Kuyek | 3 | 2007 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Growing Up Rural |
Topics covered in this chapter include: households, the generational division of labour, education, pluriactivity, and plurilocality. | Ben White | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Patterns of Water UseFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, we look at where water comes from, how it is allocated among various uses and how much each individual uses. We’ll look briefly at water use in cities, homes and offices, … | Jerry Yudelson | 13 | 2010 | $1.30 Add |
