Agrarian Crisis

Author : Fred Magdoff
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673903
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agriculture and Food in Crisis written by Fred Magdoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world’s population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the contributors to this volume share a focus on investigating how agricultural production is shaped by a system that is oriented around the creation of profit above all else, with food as nothing but an afterthought. As the authors make clear, it is technically possible to feed to world’s people, but it is not possible to do so as long as capitalism exists. Toward that end, they examine what can be, and is being, done to create a human-centered and ecologically sound system of food production, from sustainable agriculture and organic farming on a large scale to movements for radical land reform and national food sovereignty. This book will serve as an indispensible guide to the years ahead, in which world politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food politics.

Author : Rami Zurayk
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1786393646
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture written by Rami Zurayk and published by CABI. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to explore the dialectic relating agriculture, crisis and conflict, and attempts to expand the knowledge on these interactions. Part 1 of the volume (chapters 1-6) discusses thematic issues and methodological approaches to understanding the intersection of agriculture, crisis and conflict. Part 2 (chapters 7-20) provides case studies that take a detailed approach to understanding agricultural contexts facing crisis and conflict, or the role played by agriculture within crisis and conflict. Studies are selected from areas that might be expected to feature in such a volume (the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America) as well as less obvious regions where conflict within agriculture refers not to widespread violence or wars but rather latent or simmering crisis (Central Asia and Europe). Crises stemming from politically-driven violence, natural disasters and climate change are covered, as well as competition over resources.

Author : Harry Kitsikopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415895781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 written by Harry Kitsikopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the diversity of economic growth patterns across Europe during the late Middle Ages and debates the causes of the fourteenth century crisis which initiated profound institutional transformations.

Author : Emmadi Naveen Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443844306
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Crisis written by Emmadi Naveen Kumar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is among the fastest developing countries of the world. However, a major percentage of its population (60 to 70%) still depends on agriculture and its allied activities. Though many policies have been introduced to enhance its agriculture sector, it still faces a lot of challenges. In recent times the state of Andhra Pradesh, one of the major food grain producing states, has had the highest number of farmer suicides in the country, with Warangal witnessing the highest number amongst the districts in the state. This book attempts to figure out the various socio-economic reasons behind the agrarian crisis prevailing in that district and suggests some remedies to control the situation.

Author : D. Narasimha Reddy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088306
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Crisis in India written by D. Narasimha Reddy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the macro- and micro-level issues associated with agrarian distress. It analyses structural, institutional, and policy changes, highlighting the failure of public support system in agriculture. The crisis manifests itself in the form of deceleration in growth and distress of farmers. The case studies from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Punjab bring out the diversity of conditions prevalent in the states.

Author : Anthony Pahnke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000868621
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Crisis in the United States written by Anthony Pahnke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers risking their lives in the fields without basic personal protective equipment, the COVID-19 pandemic made it painfully obvious that US agriculture does not work. Agrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform situates the many food system problems that the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare in historical context across four key policy areas, namely, in land, labor, markets, and the environment. In applying and building from the work of Jürgen Habermas, Agrarian Crisis in the United States highlights how deep-seated problems concerning systemic racism, economic inequality, and political legitimacy endanger the US food and farm system’s future. Besides analyzing crises, it presents solutions that would make agriculture in the United States more just and resilient through the implementation of certain communication and policy strategies. Its original argument, as well as a novel set of remedies, will appeal to scholars and activists with interests in agrarian studies, environmental policy, and social movements.

Author : R S Deshpande
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 8132105125
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Crisis and Farmer Suicides written by R S Deshpande and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the twelfth in the series ‘Land Reforms in India’. The essays in this volume bring out the multi-dimensional aspects of the agrarian crisis, and its impact on farmers’ suicides leading to public policy. A distinctive feature of this collection is its holistic approach towards viewing farm sector distress, instead of looking for isolated causes and solutions.

Author : Marcel Mazoyer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583674918
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of World Agriculture written by Marcel Mazoyer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.

Author : Lakhwinder Singh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317331214
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India written by Lakhwinder Singh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agrarian distress in the era of globalization has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. This book, using empirical research and field data from north India, especially Punjab, examines the different facets of this tragic phenomenon in rural India. Situating Indian agriculture in the context of globalization it looks at the underlying causes of farmer suicides in a state that was the model of modern capitalist agriculture and development. It also attempts to understand why other farmers have chosen not to take the same path. With a comparative framework and coverage of nearly 1400 rural households, it brings out the brutal manifestation of this complex and multidimensional situation in the Indian countryside. Topical, comprehensive and rich in data, this book will be valuable to scholars and researchers of political economy, agricultural economics, South Asian politics, political sociology, and public policy.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Orion Society
ISBN 13 : 9780913098288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agricultural Crisis written by Wendell Berry and published by Orion Society. This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: