1. Altered Genes, Twisted Truth 
   How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
2. The AT Reader
   Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1985
   An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
3. Can We Live and Eat Too?
   Against The Current vol. 131
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   In 1579, the fleet of British explorer Sir Francis Drake met the coast of what we now call California. Drake, who would dub his discovery “New Albion” (Albion being the Latin name for Britain), thought he had happened upon an island. Though the source of California’s present-day name is obscure, at least one etymological theory suggests that Drake was not alone in imagining the place as a world apart; the first literary reference to “California,” in a 1510 novel by Spanish writer García Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Esplandián, depicts an island in the Pacific inhabited by Amazonian women.
4. Community Shared Agriculture / Community-supported agriculture
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme, sometimes including dairy products and meat. Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land.
5. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
6. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1981
   
7. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
8. Connexions Library: Food Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
9. Farmageddon 
   Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Kneen explains how corporations control the distribution of food with little knowledge or care of the health risks of engineered food.
10. A Focus of Anti-capitalist Struggle? 
    Book review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change the World
11. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
12. For Friends of Foodland
    A Citizen's Guide to Foodland Preservation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    
13. The Future of Food
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2004
    Explores the radical changes in our diet and our food in the last half century.
14. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
15. GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
16. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
17. 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.
18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
    Voter Suppression
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
19. 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.
20. Permaculture
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
21. So Shall We Reap
    What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble.
    An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
22. The Town That Food Saved 
    How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    An account of how cooperative agricultural enterprises are revitalizing the economy of a town in Vermont.
23. Unnatural Harvest
    How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    
24. Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Excerpted from the book "Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit".
25. Will GM Crops Collapse the Food System?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Often when a technology is introduced one never considers why it was introduced or what future events and connections may be put in motion. Clearly the trend to global crop production and marketing has changed the face of agriculture. Now we are left to decide if it was a good thing, this world changing shift in crop production brought about by GM crops.

Experts on L'agriculture et l'alimentation in the Sources Directory

1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2. International Fund for Agricultural Development