Why biotechnology and high-tech agriculture cannot feed the world

Ecologist

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 294-298

  Kimbrell, Andrew ^a  

^a Jacques Ellul Society   (United States)

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AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD SECURITY;

EID: 0345471836     PISSN: 02613131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. www.monsanlo.com
2. Ibid.
3. Louise Jury "Anger at Monsanto's Claim to 'Feed the World," The Independent, July 25, 1998.
4. Peter Uvin, "The State of World Hunger", in Ellen Messer and Peter Uvin (eds) The Hunger Report: 1995 (Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1996), table 1.6. For a more recent and fuller description of world hunger and the myth of the Green Revolution, see Lappe, Collins, Rosset and Esparza, World Hunger: 12 Myths, Second Edition, (Grove/Atlantic and Food First Books) 1998.
5. Ibid.
6. Roy L. Prosterman, Mary N. Temple and Timothy M. Hanstead (eds.). Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies (Boulder Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990) Introductions p.l.
7. Lappé, et al, "The Latest on the Green Revolution and Proposals for a New Green Revolution," in World Hunger: 12 Myths, p.3.
8. Linda M. Labao, Locality and Inequality: Farm and Industry Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), table 2.1.
9. Jan Wojcik, The Arguments of Agriculture, (West Lafayelte, Indiana 1989) p.88 (citing the work of Fredrick H. Buttell).
10. See Marty Strange, Family Farming; A New Economic Vision, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), pp.78-103.
11. Ibid.,p.93.
12. Alternative Agriculture, National Research Council, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989), p.9.
13. Hewitt, Tracy Irwin, Smith, Kathcrin R., "Intensive Agriculture and Environmental Quality: Examining the Ne est Agricultural Myth," pp. 7-9.
14. Lappé et alp. 17.
15. Ibid.
16. Hewitt and Smith, op.cit. 13, p.4.
17. Seewww.monsanto.com
18. See, Mcndelson, Joseph III, "Roundup rules the World," in this issue.