The World Food Crisis

Sources and Solutions

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ID9201461
AuthorsFred Magdoff (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume60
Issue1
Pages1
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMonthly Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520
PublisherMonthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14452/mr-060-01-2008-05_1
OpenAlexW2031590862
LanguageEN
Citations received14

An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at the interaction between these short-term and long-term crises. Both crises arise primarily from the for-profit production of food, fiber, and now biofuels, and the rift between food and people that this inevitably generates...This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Food insecurity · Food security · Happening · Neoclassical economics · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Profit (economics) · Term (time) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History

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