A comparatively short(!) new article I believe worthy of your attention: Nathan A. Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki, “The Butz Stops Here: Why the Food Movement Needs to
Rethink Agricultural History” [...]
A comparatively short(!) new article I believe worthy of your attention: Nathan A. Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki, “The Butz Stops Here: Why the Food Movement Needs to
Rethink Agricultural History” [...]
Patrick O'Donnell's recent posting of Marion Nestle's interview with a Western grower CEO and attendant commentary, contributes greatly to understanding the
irreconcilable differences between farm labor skills with the risk of agricultural enterprises facing decreasing labor shortages. [...]
Migrant workers harvest corn on Uesugi Farms in Gilroy, California (2013). U.S. Department of Agriculture Migrant workers harvest corn on Uesugi Farms in Gilroy, California
(2013). U.S. Department of Agriculture [...]
Several recent posts have focused on agriculture in Africa. I applaud those posts. Today, I received an e-mail from the African Journal of Food, Agriculture,
Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) that publicized its newest issue -- a special issue on biofortification of staple crops for Africa. I have done some legal work [...]
[Apologia: I realize all agriculture-newsworthy items don’t originate from California, but as I live in the state and our other bloggers are quiescent at the moment, I trust
you can forgive me. And yet we might recall that California is ‘positioned as the agricultural powerhouse of the United States,’ as it ‘leads all of the other [...]
This series of titles from Zed Books has several volumes directly and indirectly relevant to questions in international political economy and agriculture, should anyone be
interested. I have a post with a bit more information over at Ratio Juris. [Please note: I am not being paid by Zed Books, I did not receive a (or any) free book(s) [...]
Drying cocoa beans in rural Ghana (Photo: Elke de Buh) Drying cocoa beans in rural Ghana (Photo: Elke de Buh) Drying cocoa beans in rural Ghana (Photo: Elke de Buh) Drying
cocoa beans in rural Ghana (Photo: Elke de Buh) [...]
I’ve made a fair amount of additions to this bibliography: The Sullied Science & Political Economy of Hyper-Industrial Agriculture (Or: ‘Toward Agroecology & Food Justice’).
In a future post at the Agricultural Law blog I aim to provide an introduction to agroecology, providing several definitions as well as references (online and otherwise) [...]
In the hope of arousing abiding interest among those who’ve yet to read this work, what follows is from the informative if not provocative Foreword by James C. Scott to Bill
Winders’ The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy (Yale University Press, 2009):“The task Bill Winders sets himself is sharply [...]