Hungry for profit  the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment / 
edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. 
 - New York :  Monthly Review Press,  (c)2000. 
 - 1 online resource (248 pages) :  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>An overview /  The agrarian origins of capitalism /  Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility : relevance for today's agriculture /  Concentration of ownership and control in agriculture /  Ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for truly sustainable farming /  The maturing of capitalist agriculture : farmer as proletarian /  New agricultural biotechnologies : the struggle for democratic choice /  Global food politics /  The great global enclosure of our times : peasants and the agrarian question at the end of the twentieth century /  Organizing U.S. farm workers : a continuous struggle /  Rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up /  Want amid plenty : from hunger to inequality /  Cuba : a successful case study of sustainable agriculture /  The importance of land reform in the reconstruction of China /  Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster and Frederick H. Buttel --  Ellen Meiksins Wood --  John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff --  William D. Heffernan --  Miguel A. Altieri --  R.C. Lewontin --  Gerard Middendorf ... [and others --  Philip McMichael --  Farshad Araghi --  Linda C. Majka and Theo J. Majka --  Elizabeth Henderson --  Janet Poppendieck --  Peter M. Rosset --  William Hinton. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781583673959 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Agricultural industries.<br/>Agriculture--Economic aspects.<br/>Sustainable agriculture.<br/>Agricultura sostenible.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9000  / .H864 2000