Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal Contributor(s): Magdoff, Fred (Author), Tokar, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583672265 ISBN-13: 9781583672266 Publisher: Monthly Review Press OUR PRICE: $22.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Agriculture & Food - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 363.82 |
LCCN: 2010039982 |
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.59" W x 8.18" (0.87 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Magdoff, Fred: - Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press). Tokar, Brian: -Brian Tokar is a long-time activist and author, and current director of the Institute for Social Ecology based in Plainfield, Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative and Earth for Sale and lectures widely on a variety of environmental and political topics. |