Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
The World Food Crisis in Historical Perspective
July 1, 2009
Philip McMichael is a professor of development sociology at Cornell University, and is working on issues concerning agrarian movements, agrofuels, and climate change. The “world food crisis” of 2007-08 was… READ MORE
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis
July 1, 2009
Deborah Fahy Bryceson is an economic geographer at the University of Glasgow. Her work is concerned with African livelihoods, mobility, and settlement in transition, notably with respect to the processes… READ MORE
Origins of the Food Crisis in India and Developing Countries
July 1, 2009
Utsa Patnaik is professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. She is on the editorial advisory board of Social Scientist (Delhi)… READ MORE
Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time Is Done
July 1, 2009
Sophia Murphy is a public policy analyst and a senior advisor on trade and global governance issues at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy focusing on agricultural trade rules,… READ MORE
Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System
July 1, 2009
David Pimentel is a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University. His research spans the fields of energy, ecological and economic aspects of pest control, biological control, biotechnology,… READ MORE
Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty
July 1, 2009
Miguel A. Altieri is professor of agroecology at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of numerous articles and books on agroecology (http://www.agroeco.org). He has helped to… READ MORE
Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform
July 1, 2009
Peter Rosset resides in Chiapas, Mexico, where he is a researcher for the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM), and co-coordinates the Land Research Action Network…. READ MORE
The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System
July 1, 2009
Christina Schiavoni is co-director of an NGO based in New York City, where she specializes in food and agriculture issues. William Camacaro, originally from Venezuela, is co-founder of the Alberto… READ MORE
From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements
July 1, 2009
Eric Holt-Giménez is an agroecologist and political economist. He is currently the executive director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. He has worked for over thirty years with… READ MORE