Malthusianism, Capitalist Agriculture, and the Fate of Peasants in the Making of the Modern World Food System

This article describes the role of Malthusian thinking as a rationale for the commercial development of global agriculture at the expense of peasant-livelihood security. Focusing on the impact of the cold war, in an era of peasant insurgency, it explores how the Green Revolution reflected and reinfo...

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Main Author: Eric B. Ross
Format: Printed Book
Published: Review of Radical Political Economics 2003; 35; 437 2003
Subjects:
GREEN REVOLUTION COLD WAR
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/00859.pdf
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