John Bellamy Foster

Fred Magdoff

Frederick H. Buttel

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.

The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

Hungry for Profit

John Buckingham Foster

The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment

Peter Dickens

August Gijswijt

Dresser Professor and Regents Professor of Sociology Riley E Dunlap

Riley E. Dunlap

This comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today. At the same time, the book aims to go beyond an inventory of environmental sociological theory by stressing how new ground can be broken in the articulation of environmental sociology with major classical and contemporary sociological theories.

Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

Sociological Theory and the Environment

Frederick H. Buttel

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