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100			_aRoss, Eric B.
245			_aMalthusianism, capitalist agriculture, and the fate of peasants in the making of the modern world food system
260			_c2003
300			_ap.437-67.
362			_aFall
520			_aThis article describes the role of Malthusian thinking as a rationale for the commercial development of global agriculture at the expense of peasant-livelihood security. Focusing on the impact of the cold war, in an era of peasant insurgency, it explores how the Green Revolution reflected and reinforced the West's conviction that technological innovation, rather than more equitable systems of production, should resolve the problem of world food security said to be due to "overpopulation". - Reproduced.
650			_aFarmers
650			_aCold war
650			_aGreen revolution
650			_aPopulation
650			_aAgriculture
650			_aMalthusianism
650			_aFood supply
773			_aReview of Radical Political Economics
909			_a59277
999			_c59277 _d59277