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The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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This chapter looks at the industrial food system — its origins and the problems it generates — which casts yet more doubt on the conventional wisdom that industrial agriculture is the … 12 $1.20 Add
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“Drawing Forth the Force that Slumbered in Peasants’ Arms”

The Economist, High Agriculture & Selling Capitalism

From: Food Sovereignty

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Grocery Stores

The Food System’s Control Center

From: Grocery Story

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The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Principles of Private Property Simple Principles, Complex Problems

From: Belongings

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Where Does Agroecological Food Come From

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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This chapter begins by considering food produced by the industrial food system that has been called “food from nowhere". In contrast, agroecological food comes from … 38 $3.80 Add
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Capitalist Agriculture, the Food Price Crisis & Peasant Resistance

From: Food Sovereignty

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Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Interlude

From: Grocery Story

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This chapter describes alternative, viable, models for grocery stores and the "food shed" of local retailers and growers in Nelson, BC, and Viroqua, Wisconsin. The grocery store chains … 11 $1.10 Add
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Weighing the Alternatives

From: Belongings

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Agrofuels & Food Sovereignty

Another Agrarian Transition

From: Food Sovereignty

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Enter the Co-op

From: Grocery Story

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In this chapter the author describes the history of co-ops from 1761 in Scotland to the revival of community-owned grocery stores in the 1980s. The structure and types of co-ops, their … 13 $1.30 Add
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Envisioning the Future of Agroecological Food Systems

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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In this chapter the authors summarize that agroecological agriculture must also be based on equity, participation, democracy, and justice, that is not only sustainable but helps restore and … 18 $1.80 Add
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Landing For Change

From: Belongings

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Rape of the Commons

The Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security

From: Damming the Peace

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Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … 24 $2.40 Add
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Reconnecting Agriculture & the Environment

Food Sovereignty & the Agrarian Basis of Ecological Citizenship

From: Food Sovereignty

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The Food Co-op Waves

From: Grocery Story

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This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while … 18 $1.80 Add