Sustainability: Agricultural Production, Food Insecurity, and the Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 38676
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental sociology; international development; gender; global and local sustainability
Interests: economics; biological and man-made systems; production markets; sustainable bio-based production systems
Interests: global agricultural production; the US Farm Bill; wages and inequality
Interests: macro-socioeconomics and sustainability; World-System Theory; national capitals (natural capital, economic capital, infrastructural capital, social capital); environment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite manuscripts examining the issues treated below for the current world system. The author(s) should view his or her article as a cumulative advance to the sustainability literature.
With the advent of agriculture the food provider role emerged in small but equally sustained groups or emerging communities. Over time, farmers were even able to feed outsiders, who exchanged what they held of value for the food that sustained them. Some farmers and traders exchanged deeply and this synergy substantially improved yield for capital-expanding farmers, as it did farm waste, and farming’s impacts on the environment. Consequently, certain farmers enjoyed the greater, ongoing accumulation of different forms of capital—more land, animals, pottery and vessels, gemstones, tools, outside inventions, and ultimately available coinage. With the deepened commercialization of farming, mechanization, and other productions in the division of human labor, substantial growth in different wealth arenas ensued—industrial agriculture, oil, mines, railroads, banking. Today, the world houses about 2200 billionaires, while roughly 10% (over 800 million) of the world’s population is food insecure and near starvation. No matter whether it is the economic, social or environmental realms of life, the heretofore unimaginable “sustainability” of the few is now accompanied by the absence of sustainability for the many.
Prof. Dr. Edward L. Kick
Prof. Dr. Laura L. McKinney
Prof. Dr. Kelly Zering
Mr. Ahad Pezeshkpoor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- IPAT/POET models
- industrial agriculture
- food security
- genetic modification
- green revolution
- sustainability
- agroecology
- treadmill of production
- eutrophication
- human/animal health
- world system/unequal exchange
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