1. Big Farms Make Big Flu 
   Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2016
   An examination of the relationships between infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science.
2. Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
3. The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
4. The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
5. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
6. Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were
   by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
7. Farmageddon
   The True Cost of Cheap Meat
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014
   An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry.
8. Farmers Confront Industrialism
   Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
   
9. The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line with the dogma of neoliberalism they want it to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of economic growth. High tech offers to reconcile the two ambitions – producing allegedly fabulous yields, which seems to be what’s needed, and becoming highly profitable.
10. Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
11. Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
12. GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimised by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.
13. GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
14. A Green History of the World 
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
15. Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
16. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Website
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
17. The Land Grabbers 
    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
18. Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties.
19. Marx as a Food Theorist 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
20. Meeting the Expectations of the Land 
    Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
21. New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
22. New research shows 50 year binge on chemical fertilisers must end to address the climate crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    New research shows that synthetic nitrogen fertilisers are a major driver of the climate crisis, responsible for 1 out every 40 tonnes of GHGs currently pumped into the atmosphere. Now is the time for the world to kick its addiction to synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and urgently transition to farming without fossil fuels and chemicals.
23. The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
24. No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
25. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
26. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 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 labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
    Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
28. Quotes about Farming and Agriculture
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
29. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An expose of the environmental and human costs of turning tomatos into an industrial product.
30. Toward the Agro-Police State 
    You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
31. Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.
32. Vegetarians, ranchers and conscious omnivores of the world, unite!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Thinking people of all stripes are agreed in their opposition to cruel, exploitative animal farming. Cummins suggests moving beyond sterile 'meat-eater versus vegetarian' debates, and unite in their opposition to the daily atrocities of industrial agriculture.
33. What are we eating?
    Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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 labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
34. Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Excerpted from the book "Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit".

Experts on Agriculture industrialis‚e in the Sources Directory

1. International Forum on Globalization