TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 51, Issue 4 (December 2008)
The Future of Agriculture
Thematic Section: Who Feeds the Earth: Protecting soil, water, land and seeds |
Dialogue: Who Feeds the World? |
Local/Global Encounters: Food for Profit or Food for Life? |
Window on the World |
Book Shelf |
Who's Who |
Last Word
Upfront
Editorial: Food Sovereignty and the Right to Live FREE
Presents the message of the journal on how to address the abuses of the global industrialized agricultural system
Wendy Harcourt
Development 51: 439-441; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.66
The Unthinkable in Pursuit of the Eatable
Argues that movements around the world are presenting new policies that challenge and are prevented by the current constitution of international power
Raj Patel
Development 51: 442-449; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.50
How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis
Outlines the critical role of the World Bank and IMF in the current global food crisis
Walden Bello
Development 51: 450-455; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.60
Via Campesina: Responding to global systemic crisis
Introduces the crucial work of mobilization of small farmers and peasants through Via Campesina
Paul Nicholson in Conversation with and Isabelle Delforge
Development 51: 456-459; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.51
Thematic Section: Who Feeds the Earth: Protecting soil, water, land and seeds
Food Sovereignty and the Contemporary Food Crisis
Examines the causes of the current food crisis and promotes food sovereignty as the only way out of our current conundrum
Peter Rosset
Development 51: 460-463; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.48
Out of AGRA: The Green Revolution returns to Africa
Reflects on the structural shift from state-led development strategies to market-led approaches for the Green Revolution
Eric Holt-Giménez
Development 51: 464-471; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.49
Scaling up Agroecological Approaches for Food Sovereignty in Latin America
Suggests that farmers need to be actively involved in the process of technological innovation and dissemination
Miguel A Altieri and Clara I Nicholls
Development 51: 472-480; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.68
The Global Free Market in Biofuels
Argues that a free market in industrial biofuels threatens to detract from real solutions to the energy crisis and equitable development needs
Gretchen Gordon
Development 51: 481-487; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.52
Agricultural Biodiversity: African alternatives to a 'green revolution'
Proposes African alternatives that honour farmers' rights and agricultural biodiversity will increase sustainable food production
Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson
Development 51: 488-495; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.54
Seeding New Technologies to Fuel Old Injustices
Argues that techno-fixes that are propping up the agro-industrial farming system and are at the root of today's food crisis
Silvia Ribeiro and Hope Shand
Development 51: 496-503; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.53
Dialogue: Who Feeds the World?
The Peasant as 'Canary'? Not too early warnings of global catastrophe
Calls for an ecological sensibility is needed to challenge corporate retailers appropriating local foods
Philip Mcmichael
Development 51: 504-511; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.56
The New Bonfire of Vanities: Soybean cultivation and globalization in South America
Warns that small farmers, peasants and indigenous groups are threatened with deepening marginalization and exclusion
Eduardo Gudynas
Development 51: 512-518; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.55
The New Bioeconomy and the Future of Agriculture
Indicates that the future of agriculture will be determined by how we respond to the decreased availability of cheap energy
Rachel Smolker
Development 51: 519-526; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.67
Globalization and Corporate Concentration in the Food and Agriculture Sector
Looks at some recent global trends in food and agriculture
Sophia Murphy
Development 51: 527-533; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.57
Local/Global Encounters: Food for Profit or Food for Life?
Agrifood Inequalities: Globalization and localization
Asks how are social movements and innovations in the alternative agrifood movements in the United States are addressing deep socio economic inequalities
Patricia Allen and Alice Brooke Wilson
Development 51: 534-540; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.65
Sustaining Agriculture-Based Livelihoods: Experiences with non-pesticidal management in Andhra Pradesh
Discusses the lopsided policies in technology and support to farmers, faulty regulatory and market systems
Gangula Venkata Ramanjaneyulu and Vijay Rukmini Rao
Development 51: 541-546; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.64
A Feminist Political Economic Analysis of the US Chicken Industry
Gives an overview of competing poultry production systems from a feminist political economic analysis
Kristin Sampson
Development 51: 547-554; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.59
Gambling on Pakistan's Agricultural Future
Underlines the importance of rediscovering traditional farming methods
Najma Sadeque
Development 51: 555-560; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.62
Window on the World
Window on the World FREE
Describes the key civil society organizations working on agriculture
Sonja Cappello
Development 51: 561-563; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.61
Book Shelf
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Reviews the latest books on the food crisis and the future of agriculture
Federica Lomiri and Sonja Cappello
Development 51: 564-565; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.63
Who's Who
Who's Who
Lists the contacts for the contributors of this issue
Development 51: 566-569; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.69
