Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 3 (July-August 2009) [PDF]

Contents of Volume 61, Number 3

• Notes from the Editors
• Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal
  • An Overview of the Food and Agricultural Crisis by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar
• Understanding the Agrifood Crisis
  • Food Wars by Walden Bello and Mara Baviera
  • The World Food Crisis in Historical Perspective by Philip McMichael
  • Sub-Saharan Africa’s Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis by Deborah Fahy Bryceson
  • Origins of the Food Crisis in India and Developing Countries by Utsa Patnaik
  • Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time Is Done by Sophia Murphy
• Resistance and Renewal
  • Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System by David Pimentel
  • Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty by Miguel A. Altieri
  • Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform by Peter Rosset
  • The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System by Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro
  • From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements by Eric Holt-Giménez
• Front Cover Photograph: Rice field in the Philippines by Fred Magdoff