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  1. Accounts of Wrath
    The Family Farm Under Siege
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
  2. Agriculture issue
    Periodical profile published 1991
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  3. Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Food sovereignty as defined by Via Campesina is the peoples’ right to define their agricultural and food policy, and the right of farmers and peasants to produce food. Worldwide communities are seeking an alternative to a model controlled by Cargill, Monsanto, General Foods, Nestle and Kraft foods. Starved by industrialization and concentration, citizens are now hungry for traditional production methods and diversity in the food system.
  4. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  5. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  6. Das Capital, Volume 1 
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  7. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
  8. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
  9. Climate Change and World Agriculture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  10. Co-workers in a World Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
  11. Community Shared Agriculture / Community-supported agriculture
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  12. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  13. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
  14. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  15. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  16. Farm Gate Defence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates,mounting production costs and low prices.
  17. Farmageddon
    Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy
    Resource Type: Book
  18. Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions – and are fighting to export them
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes – even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce – and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
  19. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  20. Food Among the Ruins
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Detroit, the country’s most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
  21. Food, Hunger, Agribusiness
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  22. 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.
  23. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
  24. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  25. From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The "liberalization" and “corporatization” of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India’s 1 billion people.
  26. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
  27. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
  28. 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.
  29. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
  30. Guns, Germs and Steel
    A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  31. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  32. How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
    A European and Third World Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
  33. International Permaculture Species Yearbook 1986
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  34. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  35. The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
    Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
  36. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
  37. Meeting the Expectations of the Land
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  38. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
  39. Open Veins of Latin America 
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (25th Anniversary Edition)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
  40. Permaculture
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
  41. Planning for Agriculture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  42. Restructuring and Resistance
    Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
  43. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  44. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
  45. So Shall We Reap
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    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.
  46. Support for Farmers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
  47. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
    The Right to Produce and Access Land
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Food is a basic human rights. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
  48. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
    Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
  49. The War in the Country
    How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Chronicles the gradual disappearance of Canada's family farms.
  50. When Food Kills
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  51. Women and Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  52. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

Experts on Agriculture in the Sources Directory

  1. CUSO-VSO
  2. Canada Science and Technology Museum and Canada Agriculture Museum
  3. Canadian Encyclopedia
  4. Canadian Federation of Agriculture
  5. European Union
  6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  7. ibiblio.org
  8. Inter-American Development Bank
  9. International Forum on Globalization
  10. International Fund for Agricultural Development
  11. Natural History Museum
  12. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  13. World Bank


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