Elbert van Donkersgoed

In Review: A Farmer's Lament

6 April, 2010 | Elbert van Donkersgoed

The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future, Thomas E. Pawlick, Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2009, 320 pages.

In The War in the Country, Thomas Pawlick has done a great service. He documents recent tensions and traumas that have battered every rural commun­ity across Ontario. Moreover, he reports in the voice of family farmers, small businesses, native people and back-to-the-landers. ...

Published in: New Eco Books 36.3

In Review: Food Incorporated

17 February, 2010 | Elbert van Donkersgoed

Corporate Power In Global Agrifood Governance, Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs, eds, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009, 308 pages.

Characterized by economic instability and flux, the globally integrated food system wreaks havoc on the incomes of farmers, businesses and various food system players around the world. With Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance, an in-depth collection of essays and case studies, editors Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs show why there is every reason to expect these issues to continue indefinitely if the actions of transnational corporations are left unchecked.

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