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- Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
Resource Type: Article Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Ethiopia's seed banks - under threat from G8 plan to 'develop' Africa
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's all at risk from a G8 plan to open Africa to corporate agriculture.
- Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of agriculture impacts farmers and whether or not it can actually feed the global population.
- India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
- Marx as a Food Theorist
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Farmers and activists more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and t Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
- This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
- Zatoun
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