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Mar 6, 2015 · The productivity gap between the most and least productive farms exploded in the 20th century, from a ratio of 10:1 to 1000:1.2 Today in the post-industrial states, agriculture typically employs less than 5% of the labour force. 54% of the world’s population is urban, a figure expected to rise to 66% by 2050.3
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Jun 21, 2010 · For the better part of six centuries, the relation between world capitalism and agriculture has been a remarkable one. Every great wave of capitalist development has been paved with ‘cheap’ food. Beginning in the long sixteenth century, capitalist agencies pioneered successive agricultural revolutions, yielding a series of extraordinary expansions of the food surplus.
- Jason W. Moore
- 2010
- The Purposes and Outcomes of Agriculture
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The main purpose of almost all farm production in the United States is to sell raw products at the highest possible profit. There are farmers producing for niche markets and/or “adding value” by processing at the farm (making such items as cheeses and jams) and selling directly to the public. However, the overwhelming quantity of food produced is b...
These questions are intertwined—one decision may directly lead to particular decisions on other aspects. As an example, let us look at a farmer in the U.S. Cornbelt region (the Cornbelt is centered in Iowa and Illinois, but includes large areas of Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, Missouri, western Indiana and parts of western Ohio, and the eastern Dako...
The discussion above followed the issues as they cascaded from an initial decision to pursue one type of farming, albeit one quite common in the U.S. Midwest. All of the decisions discussed above are absolutely logical given the initial decision to grow corn and soy for the general commodity market (instead of a niche market) in that region and giv...
Of course! There are many things that have been done and more that can and should be accomplished in the future to deal with the ecological and social problems (irrationalities) created by capitalist agriculture. Some of these do not sufficiently threaten powerful interests that might be harmed, or the influential interests understand that, because...
The pulls and pushes of the capitalist system, and the way it inherently develops as all sectors strive to maximize profits, produces an agriculture in which: (a) there are hungry people although there is an abundance of food; (b) there is little true cycling of nutrients, increasing the reliance on fertilizers at the same time that excess nutrient...
↩Land Stewardship Program, “Crop Insurance—How a Safety Net Became a Farm Policy Disaster; White Paper 2: Crop Insurance Ensures the Big Get Bigger,” December 2, 2014, http://landstewardshipproject...↩U.S. farms raising all crops and animals continue to get larger, although there are successful small and medium size farms. About 6 percent of all farms, representing 120,000 farms, raise three-qu...Jan 30, 2018 · A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism – Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat. By Eric Holt-Giménez “Industrial agriculture has destroyed up to 75 percent of the world’s agro-biodiversity, uses up to 80 percent of the planet’s freshwater, and produces up to 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases.”
- Amrita Gupta
capitalism, that of ‘globalisation’ (or ‘neoliberal globalisation’), its drivers and consequences. Some 25 years after ‘the present’ inhabited by the original article, much of that attention has focused increasingly on changes in food production and consumption, in agriculture more broadly, and on
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Currently, industrialized agriculture is lauded for supplying the developing world with the necessary food to sustain its growing population. For example, Asia’s population grew by 60 percent between the 1960s and 1990s, and the Green Revolution and its agricultural advances spurred rice and wheat production to double in the continent
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Jun 13, 2023 · Guilherme Raj – “Unbalanced power relations are at the foundation of unsustainable agriculture” “Like most of my colleagues, I investigate real-life attempts to unmake capitalism in grassroots community-supported agriculture initiatives,” says Guilherme Raj. CSA initiatives provide possibilities for farm owners, employees, and ...
