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  1. Accounts of Wrath
    The Family Farm Under Siege

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
  2. Agricultural Land Use Change in Canada: Process and Consequences
    Land Use in Canada Series: Number 21

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Three of the six chapters focus on the Saugeen River Valley.
  3. Agriculture & Farming Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to agriculture and farming in the Sources directory for the media.
  4. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  5. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  6. Breakfast of Biodiversity
    The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction

    Resource Type: Book
  7. Canada Science and Technology Museum and Canada Agriculture Museum
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Canadian Federation of Agriculture
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  9. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  10. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
  11. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  12. Climate Change and World Agriculture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  13. Collective farming
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
  14. Community Shared Agriculture / Community-supported agriculture
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme, sometimes including dairy products and meat. Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land.
  15. Co-workers in a World Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
  16. CUSO-VSO
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  17. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  18. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  19. Farm Gate Defence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates,mounting production costs and low prices.
  20. Farmageddon
    Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy

    Resource Type: Book
  21. Farming and Food
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  22. The Fight for Canada
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  23. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  24. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  25. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
  26. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
  27. Green Cities
    Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
  28. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  29. Greenhouse Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  30. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  31. Guns, Germs and Steel
    A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  32. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  33. How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
    A European and Third World Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
  34. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
  35. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  36. The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
    Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
  37. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  38. Meeting the Expectations of the Land
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  39. Mortgaging the Earth
    The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Rich provides a history of the bank particularly between 1968 and 1981 with respect to a lack of accountability and increased pressure to lend.
  40. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  41. Necessary and Unneccessary Utopias
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary imagination, one aimed at saner ways of living and organizaing society.
  42. No Right-Of-Way
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  43. Organic Trade Association in Canada opposes introduction of genetically engineered alfalfa
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has registered strong opposition to federal permission to allow production of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa in Canada.â#oAlfalfa is a perfect crop for Canadian organic agriculture..."
  44. Permaculture
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
  45. Planning for Agriculture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
  46. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  47. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  48. So Shall We Reap
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
  49. Stolen Harvest
    The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    The author, an eco-feminist and environmentalist, documents the effects of Globalization and Manufactured Foods on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat.
  50. Support for Farmers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
  51. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An expose of the environmental and human costs of turning tomatos into an industrial product.
  52. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
  53. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
    The Right to Produce and Access Land

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    Food is a basic human rights. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
  54. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
    Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
  55. When Food Kills
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  56. When the Work's All Done This Fall
    The Settling of the Land: Vocies of Early Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  57. Women and Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  58. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

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