As we begin the post COVID-19 era, the key challenges for the event of agribusiness ecosystems in Africa look like local weather change, soil health, water for irrigation and biodiversity loss. These issues are likely to present the biggest threats (and opportunities in the case of water for irrigation), to agricultural production and agribusinesses.

“I do not ever say I need to be pro one day, or none of that. I just really feel like I’ll go along with the stream, get pleasure from the method and I know that if I needed to – due to how laborious I do know I can work – that I can make that happen at some point eventually.” Orozco said. “However I simply actually need to do this for the rest of my life.”

– Introduction, FRED MAGDOFF, JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, & FREDERICK H. BUTTEL

– The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism, by ELLEN MEIKSINS Wooden

– Liebig, Marx, and the Depletion of Soil Fertility: Relevance for Today’s Agriculture, JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER and FRED MAGDOFF

– Concentration of Ownership and Management in Agriculture, by WILLIAM D. HEFFERNAN

– Ecological Impacts of Industrial Agriculture and the Possibilities for Sustainable Farming, by MIGUEL A. ALTIERI

– The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian, by R.C. LEWONTIN

– New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Battle for Democratic Alternative, by GERAD MIDDENDORF, MIKE SKLADNY, ELIZABETH RANSOM, site, https://portpavement.com, and LAWRENCE BUSCH

– International Food Politics, by PHILIP McMICHAEL

– The great Global Enclosure of Our Instances: Peasants and the Agrarian Query at first of the Twenty-First Century, by FARSHAD ARAGHI

– Organizing U.S. Farmworkers: A Continuous Battle, by LINDA C. MAJKA & THEO J. MAJKA

– Rebuilding Local Meals Programs from the Grassroots Up, by ELIZABETH HENDERSON

– Want Amid Plenty: From Starvation to Inequality, by JANET POPPENDIECK

– Cuba: A Profitable Case Examine of Sustainable Agriculture, by PETER M. ROSSET

– The Importance of Land Reform within the Reconstruction of China, by WILLIAM HINTON

“I was on the livestock judging group when I used to be a student right here,” says Lewis. “When I look again to my faculty profession, I beloved the things that I studied, but the friendships and experiences I formed out of the classroom and the contacts I made with colleagues on the judging team or whereas we had been out visiting producers are the things you remember.”