Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food
Timothy A. Wise
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The benefits of small versus big farms: · Small farmers feed over 70% of the population in developing countries. · Small farmers’ low-input methods contribute lower levels of greenhouse gases and adapt more effectively to the rapidly changing climate. · Modern seeds and chemical fertilizers—the new “green revolution for Africa” touted by donors and agribusiness—have done nothing to improve soil fertility
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Timothy A. Wise: Timothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute, where he directs the Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press) and Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
