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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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #745949 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-01
• Released on: 2000-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

About the Author
Fred Magdoff is Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont and the author of Building Soils for Better Crops (1993). John Bellamy Foster is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and author of Marx's Ecology (1999), also available from Monthly Review Press. Frederick Buttel is Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author or editor of several books, including Environment and Modernity (1999).