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PreliminaryFoodJusticeReadingListDavidLarom,Ph.D.(SDSU),VirgilioFelix(IRC),FoodJusticeStudents

BOOKS1. Brown , Lester R. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, Earth Policy Institute, 2011. Brown

gives a comprehensive treatment of the global food, fuel and ecosystem services crisis, with particular attention to its effects on humans. Hissolution, Plan B is projected to cost US $177 billion per year (1/8 of global military spending) for the next 20 years.

2. Collier, George and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratielo. Basta! Land and The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas. Oakland, Ca: Food FirstBooks, 2005. George Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello paint a vivid picture of the historical struggle for land faced by the Maya Indians,who are among Mexicos poorest people. Examining the roles played by Catholic and Protestant clergy, revolutionary and peasant movements,

the oil boom and the debt crisis, NAFTA and the free trade era, and finally the growing global justice movement, the authors provide a richcontext for understanding the uprising and the subsequent history of the Zapatistas and rural Chiapas, up to the present day.

3. De Schutter, Olivier. Bu ilding Resilience: A Human Rights Framework for World Food and Nutrition Security. Promotion andProtection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development. Geneva:Human Rights Council, United Nations, 2008. De Schutter analyzes the current food crisis from a human rights perspective. Exploring therisks and opportunities of the food crisis, he presents why a human rights framework should be adopted to respond to food security.

4. Desmarais, Annette. La Via Campesina: Globalization and The Power of Peasants. Halifax: Fernwood Publi shing, 2006. Desmarais,a former grain farmer and long time participant in Via Campesina, explains the development of the revolutionary peasant movement to maintainones land, culture and food community.

5. Giesel, Theodore Seuss. The Lorax New York: Random House, 1971. Wonderful childrens book about conservation.6. Funes, Fernando, Luis Garcia, Martin Bourque, Nilda Perez, and Peter Rosset. Sustainable Agricultu re and Resistance: Transforming

Food Producti on in Cuba. Oakland Ca: Food First Books, 2002.After the fall of the Soviet Union, fertilizers, farm machinery, pesticidesand fuel disappeared from the Cuban countryside nearly overnight. In this book Cuban authors, tell the story of the transformation of Cuban

agriculture from industrial agriculture to the worlds leader in sustainable farming.7. Gottlieb, Robert and Anupama Ghoshi, Food Justi ce , MIT Press, 2010. Brand-new book from Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor ofEnvironmental Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles.Not yet reviewed.

8. Holt-Gimenez, E. Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin Americas Farmer to Farmer Movement. Oakland: Food First Books,2006.In 1978 Eric Holt-Gimenez, then a volunteer teaching sustainable agriculture in Mexico, invited a group of visiting Guatemalan Farmers toteach a course in the village he was volunteering - this and other efforts marked the beginning of a broad-based farmers movement. Writtenwith dozens of farm leaders, this book chronicle 25 years of the continents farmer-to-farmer movement for sustainable agriculture.

9. Holt-Gimenez, Eric, Raj Patel and Annie Shattuck. Food Rebellions!: Cris is and Hunger f or Justice. Cape Town, Oakland CA andBoston MA: Pambazuka Press, Food First Books, and Grassroots International, 2009.Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in politicaleconomy and in historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, theindustrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest.

10. Kimbrell, A.(ed). Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industr ial Agricu lture. Washington DC: Island Press, 2002.Fatal Harvest gives a viewof our current destructive agricultural system and a vision for a healthier way of producing our food in a collection of essays from writers andscholars such as Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Jim Hightower, and Gary Nabhan. Comes as a reader or as a gorgeouslyillustrated coffee table book.

11. Mollison, Bill and Reni Mia Slay. Introduction to Permaculture. Florida: Permaculture Publications, 1981.There are many permaculture books, but Mollison is one of the co-inventors and this book is perhaps less impenetrable than his definitive tomePermaculture: A Designers Manual.

12. Patel, Raj. Stuffed and Starved: Market, Power, and Hidden Battles of the Worlds Food System. London : Portobello Books, 2007.Tracing the Global food chain, Patel exposes the unjust irony of our modern food system: we now have massive health epidemics of bothstarvation and obesity. Patel uncovers the truth behind corporate control over our food, and offers solutions to regain a more equitable andhealthy food system.

13. Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry: The Defining Crisi s of t he 21stCentury. Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2006. Journalist FredPearce does a great job in showing the reader how we miss use water and abuse it worldwide. Pearce shows ancient and modern agriculturalwater use practices and how they are based on abundance of water usage. He goes on to give examples of what people are doing to stem thewater crisis.

12. Perfecto, Ivette and John Vandermeer. Breakfast of Biodiversit y: The political Ecology of Rainforest Destruct ion. Oakland: FoodFirst Books, 2006.Vandermeer and Perfecto expose the political, international, and economic forces driving rainforest destruction, and presendemocracy, sustainable agriculture, and land security as solutions to deforestation.

13. Pollan, Michael. The Omnivores Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat. New York: The Penguin Group, 2009.Pollanspersonal account of four very different meals uncovers surprising facts about growing, creating, and eating food.

14. Richards, Paul. Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa. London: Huntchison, 1985. Richards critiques the top-down model of agricultural research and highlights case studies of complex, ecologically sustainable peasantagricultural systems in Africa.

15. Shiva, Vandana. The Violence of the Green Revolution. London : Zed books, 1991.Vandana Shiva shows how the long-term negativeeffects of the Green Revolution outweigh the short-term yield increases in the fertile region of India known as the Punjab. Shiva Lays out thelong-term impacts of the Green Revolution from increased pests and diseases, to water scarcity, greater inequality, and social conflict whichembed a structural violence against the people and the land of Punjab.

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16. Shiva, Vandana. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of t he global Food Supply . Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.InStolenHarvest, she charts the impacts of industrial agriculture and what they mean for small farmers, the environment, and the quality andhealthfulness of the foods we eat. A short, impassioned, and inspiring book that will shape the debate about genetic engineering andcommercial agriculture for years to come.

17. Shiva, Vandana. Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis , South End Press, 2008.Shivas style is rambling andpolemic, but she introduces the important concept of the Triple Crisis; the interconnected unfolding of soaring food prices, Peak Oil andclimate chaos.

18. Weisman, Alan. Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.Los Llanosthe rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombiaare among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikelysetting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker namedPaolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his countrys growing population. He had no idea thatnearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the worlds most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village calledGaviotas.

18. Winnie, Mark. Closing the Food Gap. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.Closing the Food Gap outlines the food policy reform that is neededto achieve a food security for all income levels, and offers suggestions for projects, partners and policy for the American food system.

19. Wright, Angus and Wendy Wolford. To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil. Oakland: FoodFirst Books, 2003. Filled with personal stories from within Brazils Landless Workers Movement(MST), To inherit the Earth provides thehistorical, political and environmental story of the struggle and success of an agrarian reform movement to secure over 20 million acres offarmland.

ARTICLES1. Guda, Ramachandra, and Madhav Gadgil. State Forestry and Social Conflict in Br itish India. Book: Indian Forestry: A Perspective.

New Delhi: Indus Publishing, 1993.

2. Holt-Gimenez, Eric, Miguel Alti eri and Peter Rosset. Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and the Melinda GatesFoundations Al liance for another Green Revolution Will Not sol ve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa. FoodFirst Policy Brief No.12. Oakland: Institute for food and Development Policy, 2006.A report on the potential effects of the alliance for aGreen Revolution in Africa, Ten Reasons argues that, in addition to the long-term consequences of the Green Revolution, there remainspecific issues of hunger and poverty in Africa that cannot e solved with another Green Revolution. The ten reasons illustrate the ongoingGreen Revolutions negative impacts on local farming communities as well as its rejection of viable alternatives to decrease hunger and povertyin Africa.

3. Shiva, Vandana. Monocultures, Monopol ies, Myths and the Masculini zation of Agri culture. New Delhi: Palgrave Mcmillan Jou rnals,2ndIssue June. Vol. 42, 1999.

4. Miguel A. Altieri. Environmentally Sound and Socially Just Alternatives to The Industrial Farming Model. Green Planet Journal,2008.

5. Deborah Barndt. Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food & Globalization. Toronto: Sumach Press, 1999.WEBSITES1. www.agroeco.org2. www.auroville.org3. www.ciw-online.org4. www.earth-policy.org5. www.foodfirst.org6. www.freshthemovie.comFILMS1. Jean Paul Jaud. Food Beware France: J + B sequences, 2009.2. Ana Sofi a Jones. Fresh: t he Mov ie Independent fi lm, 2009.3. Robert Kenner. Food, Inc. USA, Magnolia Home Entertainment. DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009 . Runtime: 91 minutes. The

definitive movie about corporate takeover and industrialization of food.4. Deborah Koons Garcia. The Future of Food. U.S.: Lily Films, 2004.Excellent analysis of corporate takeover of intellectual property rights

to food, and of genetic engineering of food.5. Richard Linkl ater. Fast Food Nation: Do you Want Lies with That? U.S.: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2006.Powerful dramatization with

particularly disturbing (and accurate) slaughterhouse scenes.6. Marie-Monique Robin . The World According to Monsanto.