Syllabus

Books:
 

Fitzgerald, D.K. (2003). Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture, Yale University 2003 (paperback version).

Millstone, E. and T. Lang (2008). The Atlas of Food – Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Earthscan

 

Articles:

All articles in the syllabus are accessible online to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is on the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here

Aguilar-St?en M, Moe SR, Camargo-Ricalde SL (2009) Home gardens sustain crop diversity and improve farm resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico. Hum Ecol 2009, 37:55-77

Aguilar-St?en M. (2012) 'Con nuestro propio esfuerzo': Understanding the Relationships between International Migration and the Environment in Guatemala, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, No. 93, pp. 25-40

Altieri M. A. & Toledo V. M (2011) "The agroecological revolution in Latin America: rescuing nature, ensuring food sovereignty and empowering peasants", The Journal of Peasant Studies, 38:3, 587-612

Appadurai A. (2001) Deep Democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics. Environment and Urbanization.2001.13/2/23

Banik, D. (2010) “Governing a Giant: The Limits of Judicial Activism on Hunger in India", Journal of Asian Public Policy 3(3): 263-280

Banik, D. (2011) “Growth and Hunger in India”, Journal of Democracy, 22 (3): 90-104

Benson, P. and Fischer, E. F. (2007), Broccoli and Desire. Antipode, 39: 800–820.

Dauvergne, P. and & Neville, K. (2010) "Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics: the uneven social and ecological consequences of the emerging political economy of biofuels", The Journal of Peasant Studies, 37:4, 631-660

Diamond and Bellwood (2003) "Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions", Science, Vol. 300 no. 5619 pp. 597-603

Donohue and Denham (2010) "Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia: Reframing Austronesian History", Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 223-256, The University of Chicago Press

FAO, IFAD and WFP. (2014). "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014. Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition", Rome, FAO.

Goody, J. (2006) "Gordon Childe, the Urban Revolution, and the Haute Cuisine: An Anthropo-archaeological View of Modern History", Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 48 / Issue 03 / July 2006, pp 503-519

Grau, Ricardo H. and Mitchell Aide (2008) "Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America", Ecology and Society 13(2): 16

Guthman Juli, Melanie Du Puis (2006) "Embodying Neoliberalism: Economy, culture and the politics of fat", Environment and planning D: Society and Space. 2006 vol. 24:427-448.

Harlan, Jack R. (1975) "Our Vanishing Genetic Resources", Science, New Series, Vol. 188, No. 4188, Food Issue, pp. 618-621

Hastings, Gerard (2012) "Why corporate power is a public health priority", BMJ 2012;345: pp. 1-5

Humphrey, John (2007) "The Supermarket revolution in developing countries: tidal wave or tough competitive struggle?" Journal of Economic Geography 7, pp 433-450

Khoury et al (2014), "Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food Security", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America 2014;111:4001-4006

Moddie R. Et.al. (2013) "Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries". LANCET 2013:381:670-679:

Moore, Jason W. (2010) "The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1450–2010" Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 10 No. 3, July 2010, pp. 389–413.

Newell P. (2009), Bio-Hegemony: The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in Argentina.  Canadian Journal Of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne d’etudes du dévelopment, Vol.26(4), pp.867-887.

Otero, G. Pechlaner, G. (2005). Food for the few: The biotechnology revolution in Latin America. Canadian Journal Of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne d’etudes du dévelopment, Vol.26(4), pp.867-887.

Popkin (2006) "Global nutrition dynamics: the world is shifting rapidly toward a diet linked with noncommunicable diseases", Am J Clin Nutr 2006;84:289 -98

Roseberry, W. (1996), The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States. American Anthropologist, 98: 762–775

Saxena, N.C. (2012) “Hunger and Malnutrition in India”, IDS Bulletin 43(S1): 8-14.

Westengen et al. (2014) "Ethnolinguistic structuring of sorghum genetic diversity in Africa and the role of local seed systems",  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111 no. 39

 

 

 

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