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http://www.foodfirst.org/files/pdf/Agrofuels_in_the_Americas.pdf
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From that book:
Acknowledgements:
This project began a little over a year ago with five of the authors sitting around a table at Food First in Oakland, CA.
They included Annie Shattuck, Isabella Kenfield, Jessica Aguirre, Gretchen Gordon, Ellen Tarby, and myself. Beyond the wonderful work of the authors herein, we would like to thank Eric Holt Gimenez for providing his insights and many key paragraphs to most of the pieces herein. Marilyn Borchardt has provided tremendous support, humor, and feedback, and commentary through this whole process, and the rest of staff here at Food First for keeping things running. Martha and Rowena shared their kindness and their mung beans. There have been a number of people here who have stepped in to help with research, fact checking, translation, proofreading, citation hunting, and general commentary. These include: Jody Zaitlyn, Leo Hurtado, Loren Peabody, Zack Zimbalist, Matt Dintenfass, Angie Rodriguez, Maria Barrera, Ellen Tyler, Amanda El-Khoury, Mihir Mankad, Jasmine Tilley, Carla Pena, Tamara Wattnem, William Roblewski, and Matt King.
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book Description:
ReplyDeleteAgrofuels in the Americas looks at the ways in which agribusiness and energy corporations are taking advantage of peak oil, climate concerns, and global free trade rules to shape the future of agriculture to their profitable advantage. The following articles illuminate the dynamics of trade relations, global capital flows, and their symbiotic relationship with international financial institutions such as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF. They open the black box of biotechnology strategies, the corporate cooptation of the genetic commons, and the voracious land and resource consumption of the agrofuels industry. Finally, these pieces discuss the human tragedy of agrofuels’ effects on peasant farmers, rural labor, indigenous peoples, and the environment—and the corporate externalization of their social and environmental costs. They provide a picture of the future of agriculture, labor, and the biosphere if the forces capitalizing on current global crises can push their plans through. It touches on these key concerns with the aim of informing the current debate on food and fuel production. The essays that follow examine overlapping aspects of agrofuels production.