To combat climate change and hunger, a number of governments, foundations and aid
agencies have called for a 'New Green Revolution'. Such calls obfuscate the dynamics of the …

Page 1 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRARIAN CHANGE Keith Griffin Second Edition Page
2 The Political Economy of Agrarian Change Page 3 By the same author Underdevelopment in …

We are here to talk about the Agrarian Question, or rather, Agrarian Questions. The plural is
important. We live in a modern world-system of unprecedented unevenness and complexity …

The Green Revolution–the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in
the 1960s–came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal …

High yielding agriculture in less-industrialized countries, the green revolution, has been both
honored and criticized over the past twenty years. Supporters point to the increased food …

Faced with an estimated 786 million hungry people in the world, cheerleaders for our social
order have an easy solution: we will grow more food through the magic of chemicals and …

A disdain for the natural environment has characterized capitalism from the beginning. As
Marx noted, capital abuses the soil as much as it exploits the worker. 1 The makings of …

The steadily diminishing role of agriculture in the world economy—a largely unperceived,
poorly understood, but profound change—is as transformational for developmental …

The Green Revolution continues to be a touchstone in debates on food production. Accounts
generally cite “high‐yielding” dwarf wheat and rice spreading through Asia and particularly …

Does the present socio‐ecological impasse–captured in popular discussions of the 'end'of
cheap food and cheap oil–represent the latest in a long history of limits and crises that have …