Trading the future : farm exports and the concentration of economic power in our food economy / James Wessel with Mort Hantman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco, California : Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1983.Description: xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0935028137 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1/0973 19
LOC classification:
  • HD 1761 .W422 1983
Contents:
1. A time of crisis -- 2. The ABCs of the food economy -- 3. Export boom and bust: How the "stompers" win -- 4. Wheat for oil: Is it really a bargain? -- 5. The free market in grain and other myths -- 6. The food dollar and the export boom: who gains and who loses -- 7. Soil for oil: The invisible threat to our food security -- 8. The export boom and vanishing water resources -- 9. The global economic crisis and rising agricultural crisis -- 10. The export boom and its impact abroad -- 11. Lesson of the export decade.
Summary: "The American food system has come a long way since the days of the open frontier and the Homestead Act. Today the top 1 percent of farms receive 66 percent of farm income, while a handful of major corporations dominate virtually every aspect of the U.S. food economy. Trading the future traces these dramatic changes through an investigation of the boom in farm exports over the last decade. It demonstrates that this boom, touted as a savior of farmers and the world''s hungry, actually accelerated the crisis in American farming and increased corporate control over our food economy. Trading the future demonstrates that the very ground rules of our economy have lead farmers to the paradoxical crisis they face today -- record harvests coupled with record farm bankruptcies. These same ground rules have lead to record profits for many of the corporations which sell farm supplies and by farm produce." -- from back cover
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Includes tables and figures on agricultural income of 20th century farms.

Includes list of farm organizations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-226) and index.

1. A time of crisis -- 2. The ABCs of the food economy -- 3. Export boom and bust: How the "stompers" win -- 4. Wheat for oil: Is it really a bargain? -- 5. The free market in grain and other myths -- 6. The food dollar and the export boom: who gains and who loses -- 7. Soil for oil: The invisible threat to our food security -- 8. The export boom and vanishing water resources -- 9. The global economic crisis and rising agricultural crisis -- 10. The export boom and its impact abroad -- 11. Lesson of the export decade.

"The American food system has come a long way since the days of the open frontier and the Homestead Act. Today the top 1 percent of farms receive 66 percent of farm income, while a handful of major corporations dominate virtually every aspect of the U.S. food economy. Trading the future traces these dramatic changes through an investigation of the boom in farm exports over the last decade. It demonstrates that this boom, touted as a savior of farmers and the world''s hungry, actually accelerated the crisis in American farming and increased corporate control over our food economy. Trading the future demonstrates that the very ground rules of our economy have lead farmers to the paradoxical crisis they face today -- record harvests coupled with record farm bankruptcies. These same ground rules have lead to record profits for many of the corporations which sell farm supplies and by farm produce." -- from back cover

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