Toward an Understanding of the Sciences & Political Economy of Post-Industrial Agriculture: A Basic Bibliography

(Before It's News)

I quickly put this list together after commenting on Roberta Millstein’s post, “GMOs and the thing I should have said (or, why not all scientific expertise is created equal),” at the New APPS blog. The reference is to what she “should have said” in her article in The Common Reader: “GMOs? Not So Fast,” which nonetheless says, in my judgment, many of the right things.  

• Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman, eds. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
• Allen, Patricia. Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. 
• Altieri, Miguel A. Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987. 
• Anrée, Peter, et al. Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 
• Aoki, Keith. Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. 
• Bennett, Jon (with Susan George). The Hunger Machine. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1987. 
• Bernstein, Henry, et al., eds. The Food Question: Profits Versus People. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1990. 
• Bohlen, Patrick J. and Gar House, eds. Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009. 
• Brookfield, Harold. Exploring Agrodiversity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 
• Burkett, Paul. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2014 ed. (1999). 
• Crocker, David A. Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 
• Dasgupta, Partha. An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 
• Devereux, Stephen, ed. The New Famines: Why Famines Persist in an Era of Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2007.
• Drèze, Jean and Amartya Sen. Hunger and Public Action. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989. 
• Drèze, Jean, Amartya Sen, and Athar Hussein, eds. The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 
• Frankel, Francine R. India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.  
• Gliessman, Stephen R. Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 3rd ed., 2015. 
• Gosseries, Axel, Alain Marciano, and Alain Strowel, eds. Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.  
• Gottleib, Robert and Anupama Joshi. Food Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 
• Guruswamy, Lakshman D. and Jeffrey A. McNeely, eds. Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 
• Hayden, Cori. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting In Mexico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 
• Hope, Janet. Biobazzar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 
• Houtart, Franҫois. Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Agricultural Destruction. London: Pluto Press, 2010.  
• Kenny, Martin. Bio-technology: The University-Industrial Complex. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

• Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph. First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2^nd ed., 2004. 
• Krimsky, Sheldon and Jeremy Gruber, eds. The GMO Deception. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014.  
• Magdoff, Fred and Brian Tokar, eds. Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. 
• Mgbeoji, Ikechi. Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 
• Mirowski, Philip. Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 
• Mooney, Pat R. Seeds of the Earth: A Private or Public Resource? Ottawa, Ontario: Inter Pares, 1979. 
• Murdoch, William W. The Poverty of Nations: The Political Economy of Hunger and Population. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 
• Nussbaum, Martha C. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 
• Pahuja, Sundhya. Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 
• Patel, Raj. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2007. 
• Patel, Raj. “How to Be Curious about the Green Revolution,”at his website and blog, August 29, 2014. 
• Perkins, John H. Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 
• Prashad, Vijay. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. London: Verso, 2012. 
• Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose. Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience’s Promethean Promises. Verso, 2012. 
• Santilli, Juliana. Agrobiodiversity and the Law: Regulating Genetic Resources, Food Security, and Cultural Diversity. New York: Earthscan, 2012.  

• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, ed. Another Production is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist Canon. London: Verso, 2007. 
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, ed. Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon. London: Verso, 2007. 
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito, eds. Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
•  Sarkar, Sahotra. Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 
• Schurman, Rachel and William A. Munro. Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 
• Sen, Amartya. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 
• Shaikh, Anwar. Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade: History, Theory and Empirical Evidence. Routledge, 2013. 
• Shiva, Vandana. The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics. London: Zed Books, 1991. 
• Shiva, Vandana. Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights. London: Zed Books, 2001. 
• Warren, D. Michael, L. Jan Slikkerveer, and David Brokensha, eds. The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems. London: Intermediate Technology Group, 1995. 
• Zander, Joakim. The Application of the Precautionary Principle in Practice: Comparative Dimensions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 
• Ziman, John. Real Science: What It Is, and What It Means. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 
• Zimmer, Karl S. Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.

• Finally, some law and rural sociology/ag scholarship
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