Ploughing Up The Farm: Neoliberalism, Modern Technology And The State Of The World"s Farmers - Brossura

Buckland, Jerry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1842773674 ISBN 13: 9781842773673

Casa editrice: Zed Books, 2004

Riassunto

Around the world, farmers' livelihoods and food security have eroded in the past 20 years. Increasing reliance on markets and modern technology has not generated universal farm affluence. Neoliberalism has brought about rural depopulation in the northern hemisphere, rising rural poverty in the southern, and environmental problems all around the farming world. Farmgate prices have stagnated since the 1980s, while market-driven growth has encouraged production of agricultural exports and increasing use of chemical inputs. Trade liberalization is often biased against southern and small farmers, while the power of transnational corporations in agricultural trade and farm technology has grown by leaps and bounds. The corporate-driven GM-food revolution has had little positive effect on farm livelihoods or food security. The book calls for farm policies founded on farmer-led food security and a democratization of the global institutions that have had such detrimental effects.

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L'autore:

Jerry Buckland teaches international development studies (IDS) at Menno Simons College at the University of Winnipeg. From 1986-90 he worked in agricultural research in Bangladesh.

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Book by Buckland Jerry

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Zed Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1842773674
• ISBN 13: 9781842773673
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240