Food wars

Monthly Review

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bello, Walden ^a,b   Baviera, Mara ^b  

^a Focus on the Global South   (Thailand)

^b Department of Board of Rights ^*

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References (37)

1. United Nations, World Economie Situation and Prospecte 2009 (New York: United Nations, 2009), 7-8. Go back
2. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "Briefing Paper: Hunge on the Rise" (United Nations, September 17, 2008), ix. Go back
3. Reed Lindsay, "Inside Haiti's Food Riots," Al-Jazeera, April 16, 2008. Go back
4. Ibid., 46. Go back
5. Peter Wahl, "Food Speculation: the Main Factor of the Price Bubble in 2008" (Berlin: WEED, 2009). Go back
6. Aditya Chakrabortty, "Secret Report: Biof uels caused food crisis," The Guardian, July 3, 2008. Go back
7. Donald Mitchell, "A note on rising food prices," World Bank Web site, July 2008. Go back
8. Chakrabortty. Go back
9. APEC Biofuels Web site, July 21, 2008, http://www.biofuels.apee.org/me- unfted-states.html. Go back
10. "Global trends driving 'land grab' in poor nations: activists," AFP, January 3, 2009. Go back
11. Richard Spencer, "South Korean company takes over part of Madagascar to grow biofuels," Telegraph Web site, November 20 2008. Go back
12. "Global trends." Go back
13. United Nations, 48. Go back
14. Ibid. Go back
15. FAO. Go back
16. Armando Bartra, "Rebellious Cornfield: Towards Food and Labor Self-Sufficiency," in Gerardo Otero, ed., Mexico in Transition (London: Zed, 2004), 23. Go back
17. World Bank, World Bank Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2008), 138. Go back
18. Kjell Havnevik, Deborah Bryceson, Lars-Erik Birgegard, Prosper Matondi, and Atakilte Beyene, "African Agriculture and the World Bank," Pambazuka News, March 11, 2008. Go back
19. Paul Collier, "The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis," Foreign Affairs 87, no. 6 (November/December 2008), 67-79. Go back
20. Ibid, 71. Go back
21. Henry Bernstein, "Agrarian Questions from Transition to Globalization," in A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristobal Kay, eds. Peasants and Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2009), 255. Go back
22. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (London: Abacus, 1994), 289. Go back
23. Ibid, 272. Go back
24. Havnevik, et al. Go back
25. Deborah Bryceson, "Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labor Redundancy in the Neo-Liberal Era and Beyond," in Bryceson, Cristobal Kay, and Jos Mooij, eds., Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 2000), 304-05. Go back
26. Utsa Patnaik, "External Trade, Domestic Employment, and Food Security: Recent Outcomes of Trade Liberalization and NeoLiberal Economic Reforms in India," paper presented at the International Workshop on Policies against Hunger III, Berlin, October 20-22, 2004. Go back
27. The Hindu, November 12, 2007. Go back
28. Vandana Shiva, "The Suicide Economy," Znet, April 2004. Go back
29. Wayne Roberts, cited in Philip McMichael, "Food Sovereignty in Movement: the Challenge to Neo-liberal Globalization," draft, Cornell University, 2008. Go back
30. Miguel Altieri, "Small Farms as a Planetary Ecological Asset: Five Key Reasons Why We Should Support the Revitalization of Smal Farms in the Global South," Food First, 2008. Go back
31. Miguel Altieri and Clara Nicholls, "Scaling up Agroecological Approaches for Food Sovereignty in Latin America," Developmer, 51, no. 4 (December 2008), 474. Also see Peter Rosset's essay i this issue. Go back
32. Daniel Imhoff, "Community supported Agriculture," in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, The Case against the Global Economy (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1996), 425-26. Go back
33. Ibid., 426. Go back
34. "Turning Their Backs on the World," Economist, February 21 -27, 2009, 59.
35. The author's book that the Economist refers to is Waiden Bello, Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (London: Zed Press, 2002). Go back
36. Ibid., 61. Go back
37. Jan van der Ploeg, The New Peasantries (London: Earthscan, 2008) 276. Go back