Agrarian Change
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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 |
![]() NEW! Dinner on MarsThe Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth |
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 |
![]() 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 |
From ![]() NEW! Introduction: the Martian SingularityFrom: Dinner on Mars |
The Introduction reflects on the origins of this book as a thought experiment of what life would look like on Mars. Discussing topics including the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, revolutionary … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() NEW! Chapter 1: ArrivalPART I: RED HORIZONS From: Dinner on Mars |
In Chapter 1 the authors imagine what a Martian city would look like in the year 2080. Discussing the chosen location of the city, water access, resources and extraction, food, and how it would … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() NEW! Chapter 2: FoundationPART I: RED HORIZONS From: Dinner on Mars |
Chapter 2 focuses on setting up the foundations for a Martian city. Discussing the establishment of a BaseTown, power, self-sufficiency, food sovereignty, self-reliance, solar energy, … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() NEW! Chapter 3: Small Is BeautifulPART I: RED HORIZONS From: Dinner on Mars |
Chapter 3 explores the possibilities of nanotechnology. Discussing the potential of biotechnology experiments, crops, algae, bacteria, fertilizers, medicines, and the creation of a new and unique … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() NEW! Chapter 4: BiophiliaPART II: RED EDEN From: Dinner on Mars |
Chapter 4 examines the role biospheres and greenspaces will play in the Martian city. Discussing the Bloedel Conservatory, agriculture and architecture , the history of greenhouses and glass … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |