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| == Food Crisis == | == Food Crisis == | ||
| - | briab - Holt-Gimenez-Food Crisis to Food Sov.pdf | + | Hunziker_EcologicalCollapse.docx |
| - | The current global food crisis—decades in the making—is a crushing | + | A recent landmark study that investigated alarming loss of insects is leaving scientists dumbfounded, deeply troubled, potentially the biggest-ever existential threat, risking ecosystem collapse too soon for comfort. In contrast to global warming, this may be much more imminently dangerous across-the-board to terrestrial life. An enormous loss of insect population, almost decimation in some parts of the world, threatens the life-giving structure of the ecosystem. This is a deadly serious problem! |
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| + | RG- THE FOOD CRISIS (in Add to WIKI) based on Holt-Gimenez-Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty.pdf | ||
| + | Abstract: "The current global food crisis—decades in the making—is a crushing | ||
| indictment against capitalist agriculture and the corporate monopolies | indictment against capitalist agriculture and the corporate monopolies | ||
| that dominate the world’s food systems. The role of the industrial | that dominate the world’s food systems. The role of the industrial | ||
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| with the global economic downturn than with the food crisis. | with the global economic downturn than with the food crisis. | ||
| Neoliberal retrenchment has met growing resistance by those most | Neoliberal retrenchment has met growing resistance by those most | ||
| - | affected by the crisis—the world’s smallholder farmers. | + | affected by the crisis—the world’s smallholder farmers." |
| FRED - **Moore-Food and Negative Value.docx** - Jason W. Moore, //Capitalism in the Web of Life//, excerpts from ch. 10 - “RoundUp Ready crops are not protecting yield so well, either. “Superweeds,” especially but not only in GMO soy, have evolved to survive the onslaught of the famed herbicide. 161 These superweeds stand in for a much more radical shift—the transition from surplus value to negative-value—that we explore in the next section. What became clear, by the late 2000s, was that the agro-biotech expansion was actively limiting the space for a new agricultural revolution. The superweeds’ dramatic, if still-regional, negative impact on labor productivity points towards a broader set of forces undermining neoliberalism’s Cheap Food regime.” | FRED - **Moore-Food and Negative Value.docx** - Jason W. Moore, //Capitalism in the Web of Life//, excerpts from ch. 10 - “RoundUp Ready crops are not protecting yield so well, either. “Superweeds,” especially but not only in GMO soy, have evolved to survive the onslaught of the famed herbicide. 161 These superweeds stand in for a much more radical shift—the transition from surplus value to negative-value—that we explore in the next section. What became clear, by the late 2000s, was that the agro-biotech expansion was actively limiting the space for a new agricultural revolution. The superweeds’ dramatic, if still-regional, negative impact on labor productivity points towards a broader set of forces undermining neoliberalism’s Cheap Food regime.” | ||
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