Corporate Agriculture
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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  NEW! Part 2A Migrant Farm Worker From: Harvesting Freedom |
Part 2 discusses Gabriel Allahdua’s time working in a greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario, the "migrant farm worker capital of Canada", including the intense workplace conditions, … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 61 | 2023 | $6.10 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 |
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From  Quest for PurposeFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
Clear mind, honest and healthy relationships, emotional integrity, and “clean living” were cures as well as life tenets. Career, money, and health, must be connected. The affluent may … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Paradox of AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From  The Soy Complex in Latin America |
Commodification and Concentration Upstream Control and “Flexing” Downstream (Trans-)Latin American Capital, Pools de Siembra and Contract Farming Conclusion | Ben M. McKay | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From  The Thin and the FatFood Entitlements in the Twenty-First Century From: Hungry For Change |
- | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 20 | 2013 | $2.40 Add |
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From Land ControlBolivia’s Agrarian Structure and Frontier Expansion |
Historical Context Foreign Capital and Soybean Expansion The Emergence of a New Social Movement The Agrarian Revolution: Reclaiming State Legitimacy | Ben M. McKay | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From NationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 4 examines the connection between the agriculture, particularly wheat production, and the development of the Canadian nation, the prairie provinces, the genetics of red fife, cross … | Devlin Kuyek | 20 | 2007 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Part 3Status for All From: Harvesting Freedom |
Part 3 details Gabriel Allahdua’s activist work against the injustices that migrant workers experience in Canada. Part 3 also explained Allahdua’s process of leaving the program and … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 37 | 2023 | $3.70 Add |
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From Qing Youzi Understands CapitalismMoney, Markets and The Agrarian Question From: Hungry For Change |
- | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 24 | 2013 | $2.88 Add |
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From  Stopping Monsanto: Coalition Building Against rBGH and GM WheatFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The third chapter examines the NFU’s work in building a coalition against Monsanto and genetically modified crops and bovine growth hormone. Interviews are with Peter Dowling, Lucy … | Carla Fehr | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! Waiting For Land |
Topics covered in this chapter include: Modes of intergenerational resource transmission, forms of intergenerational and intragenerational tensions, and the impact of gender, and class on the … | Ben White | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From CorporationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 5 examines the rise of corporations in agriculture in the 1970’s onward in Canada, The National Biotechnology Strategy 1983, policy reform, neoliberalism, and more. | Devlin Kuyek | 9 | 2007 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! EpilogueFrom: Harvesting Freedom |
The epilogue included a brief poem and a conversation between the authors about how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected conditions for migrant farm workers. | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
