Agriculture

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Agriculture and the Generation Problem Agrarian Changes and Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	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
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	Agrarian political economy investigates the social relations of production and reproduction, property and power in agrarian formations, and how they change. Using Marx’s theory of …	Henry Bernstein	154	2010	View
NEW! Dinner on Mars The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth ECW Press	From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	232	2022	View
NEW! Earth for All A Survival Guide for Humanity New Society Publishers	Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the …	Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève	218	2022	View
Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	Philip McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food, energy, climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring, which includes agrofuels, land grabbing, the bioeconomy, …	Philip McMichael	208	2013	View
Food Sovereignty in Canada Creating Just and Sustainable Food System Fernwood Publishing	Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized, high-input, export-driven agricultural production sector, coupled with …	Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Hannah Wittman	232	2010	View
Good Crop / Bad Crop Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada Between The Lines	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
Peasants and the Art of Farming A Chayanovian Manifesto Fernwood Publishing	This book focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within the peasant farms. Jan …	Jan Douwe van der Ploeg	167	2013	View
Resilient Agriculture Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought and flooding create the most obvious …	Laura Lengnick	370	2015	View
NEW! Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. …	Laura Lengnick	368	2022	View
The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism Lessons from Bolivia Fernwood Publishing	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
NEW! Tiny Engines of Abundance A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression Fernwood Publishing	This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, …	Jim Handy	157	2022	View
From NEW! “Swept Away through Injustice” From: Tiny Engines of Abundance Preview Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 1 introduces the premise of the book, which is to reexamine the idea of progress that we tie to the evolution of industrial agriculture over the last 200 years. Examination of this period …	Jim Handy	8	2022	$0.80 Add
From Foreword From: The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism Preview Fernwood Publishing	Foreword by Cristóbal Kay, The Hague, 2019.	Ben M. McKay	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Foreword by Christiana Figueres From: Earth for All Preview New Society Publishers	The first foreword is from Christiana Figueres, the former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), one of the architects of the Paris Agreement, …	Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève	2	2022	$0.20 Add
From Introduction The Political Economy of Agrarian Change From: Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Henry Bernstein	11	2010	$1.32 Add