Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America Год выпуска: 2008Издательство: Страниц: 336ISBN: 0292717709Описание Recent decades have seen tremendous changes in Latin America's agricultural sector, resulting from a broad program of liberalization instigated under pressure from the United States, the IMF, and the World Bank. Tariffs have been lifted, agricultural markets have been opened and privatized, land reform policies have been restricted or eliminated, and the perspective has shifted radically toward exportation rather than toward the goal of feeding local citizens. Examining the impact of these transformations, the contributors to Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America paint a somber portrait, describing local peasant farmers who have been made responsible for protecting impossibly vast areas of biodiversity, or are forced to specialize in one genetically modified crop, or who become low-wage workers within a capitalized farm complex. Using dozens of examples such as these, the deleterious consequences are surveyed from the perspectives of experts in...
Похожие книги
Bob Johansen and Institute for the Future. Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. – М.: , 2012. – 408 с. Anne O. Krueger, Stanford University Center for Research on Economic Development and Po. Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court, Machiko Nissanke, Beatrice Weder, International Conference "Asia and Africa in the Global Economy. Asia and Africa in the Global Economy. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Noha El-Mikawy, Heba Handoussa, Heba Abou Shnief, Iran, and Turkey Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Universitat Bonn Zentrum Fur Entwicklungsforschung. Institutional Reform & Economic Development in Egypt. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. K. Alec Chrystal, Rupert Pennant-Rea, British Association for the Advancement of Science Section F. Public Choice Analysis of Economic Policy (British Association for the Advancement of Science Books). – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin, Jonathan M. Harris, Kevin P. Gallagher, Program for the Study of Sustainable Change and Development. Human Well-Being and Economic Goals (Frontier Issues in Economic Thought, Vol 3). – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Deni Elliott, Judy E. Stern, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics. Research Ethics: A Reader. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Ifip Tc8, Wg8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discour, Edgar A. Whitley, Micheal D. Myers, Janice I. Degross. Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology: Ifip Tc8/Wg8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse About Infor ... on for Information Processing (Series), 110,). – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Financial Crises in "Successful" Emerging Economies. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Jean Louis Cordell, Peter J. Buckley, Victor V. Cordell, World Conference on Globalization and Regionalization. Globalization and Regionalization: Strategies, Policies, and Economic Environments. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and, Hans-Peter Weikard, Robert D. Weaver, Justus Wesseler. Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. Wallace E. Oates, Wallace, E. Oates, Resources for the Future. The REF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management. – М.: , 0. – 0 с. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2006: 2007 Trends. – М.: , 2008. – 194 с. Committee on Forefronts of Science at the Interface of Physical and Life Sciences, National Research. Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences. – М.: , 2010. – 102 с. CAPT(Center for the Advancement of Process Tech)l. Process Quality. – М.: , 2010. – 288 с. The Ergonomics Group, Health and Environmental Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company. Ergonomic Design for People at Work. – М.: , 1989. – 640 с. Edited by Fatemeh Ebtehaj, Bridget Lindley and Martin Richards for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. Kinship Matters. – М.: , 2011. – 326 с. Образцы работ
Задайте свой вопрос по вашей теме
Контакты
Поделиться
Мы в социальных сетях
Реклама
Отзывы
Елена Огромное СПАСИБО за участие и оперативность! Желаю нам удачи!
