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Agriculture/Land-Use Issues
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results10 Connexions Library2 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 3 Sources Library Connexions LibraryCanadian Information Sharing Service: Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1978 Connexions: Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Serial Publication (Periodical) 1987 Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture. I was wrong on veganism: Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense Monbiot, George Article 2010 An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requireme... Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe Joan Article 2015 The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of publ... Marx as a Food Theorist  Foster, John Bellamy Article 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 Revoluti... Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom Rose, Julian Article 2015 At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agr... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018: What are we eating? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la... The World Without Us Weisman, Alan Book 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesRam's Horn A watchdog report on food issues and the agribusiness industry. Zatoun Zatoun is a NGO which brings fair trade olive oil from occupied Palestine. It highlights the plight of Palestinian farmers and the destruction of their livelihood. Olive oil is a basic food which remi... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryIndian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa Vidal, John 2011 Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. 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 Provost, Clare; McClanahan, Paige 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 opportu... |
