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- Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Cotton-pickin trade
US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
- Cracking The Food Chain
Shut out by supermarkets, farmers fertilize direct links between the field and the kitchen table Resource Type: Article Published: 1993 A survey of the challenges faced by farmers seeking to market for their organic produce.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
- Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
- GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimised by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.
- Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
- Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
- Stuffed and Starved
Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
- This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
Experts on Agricultural Subsidies in the Sources Directory
- European Union
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