Hungry For Profit
Hungry for Profit presents a historical analysis and an incisive overview of the issues and debates surrounding the global commodification of agriculture. Contributors address the growing public concern over food safety and controversial developments in agricultural biotechnology including genetically engineered foods. This book also examines the extent to which our environmental, social, and economic problems are intertwined with the structure of global agriculture as it now exists.
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Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species diversity. This penetrating set of essays explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, and in time and place from early modern Europe to contemporary Cuba, the contributions to Hungry for Profit examine the changes underway in world agriculture today and point the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to problems of food supply.
An Overview71The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism232Liebig, Marx, and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: Relevance for Today's Agriculture433Concentration of Ownership and Control in Agriculture614Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture and the Possibilities for Truly Sustainable Farming775The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian936New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice1077Global Food Politics1258The Great Global Enclosure of our Times: Peasants and the Agrarian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century1459Organizing U.S. Farm Workers: A Continuous Struggle16110Rebuilding Local Food Systems from the Grassroots Up17511Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality18912Cuba: A Successful Case Study of Sustainable Agriculture20313The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China215Appendix231Contributors235Index239
