Tell your friends about this item:
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment
Fred Magdoff
Ordered from remote warehouse
Our customers say:
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment
Fred Magdoff
There is growing popular fear over the safety of the food supply. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, this book points the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to the problems of food supply and distribution.
Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. & index; Dist.: New York UP; Cloth avail. @ $45.00.
Contributor Bio: Magdoff, Fred Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of "The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences" (Monthly Review Press). Contributor Bio: Buttel, Frederick H Frederick Buttel is Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author or editor of several books, including "Environment and Modernity" (1999). Contributor Bio: Foster, John Bellamy John Bellamy Foster is editor of "Monthly Review". He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of "The Ecological Revolution", "The Great Financial Crisis" (with Fred Magdoff), "Critique of Intelligent Design" (with Brett Clark and Richard York), "Ecology Against Capitalism", "Marx's Ecology", and "The Vulnerable Planet".
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 1, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9781583670163 |
| Publishers | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Pages | 250 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 225 × 13 mm · 367 g |
| Editor | Buttel, Frederick H. (Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| Editor | Foster, John Bellamy |
| Editor | Magdoff, Fred |
