Economic History and Development Studies: ECHS 101 Readings

Political Economy of Food and Conflict 

Bowen, Nina and Steinberg, Douglas (2004) ‘Food Security Challenges in Post-Conflict Angola,’ CARE, Angola. : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00793066/document

Messer, Ellen, M.J. Chen and T. Marchione. (2001) ‘Conflict: A Cause and Effect of Hunger,’ ECSP Report, issue 7, Washington DC. : https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/publication/ECSP7-featurearticles-1.pdf

Messer, Ellen and Marc J. Chen (2004) ‘Breaking the Links between Conflict and Hunger in Africa,’ International Food Policy Research Institute, 2020 Africa Conference, Brief 10, Washington DC. : http://ebrary.ifpri.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/73166/filename/73167.pdf

Plenty Food for All? Green revolution and Technology

Pincus, Jonathan R. (2006) ‘Green Revolution and Biotechnology,’ in Clark (ed.) The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (pp. 207- 212)

Cleaver, Harry M. (1972) ‘The Contradictions of the Green Revolution,’ The American Economic Review, Vol. 62, No.1, pp 177 - 186) : https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1821541.pdf

Shiva, Vandana (1991) ‘The Green Revolution in the Punjab,’ The Ecologist, 21(2), pp. 57 – 60. : https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3741754.pdf

http://livingheritage.org/green-revolution.htm

Yapa, Lakshman (1993) ‘What are Improved Seeds? An Epistemology of Green Revolution,’ Economic Geography, 69 (3) pp. 254-273.   : https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/143450.pdf

Zerbe, Noah (2004) ‘Feeding the Famine? American Food Aid and the GMO debate in Southern Africa,’ Food Policy, 29, pp. 593-608. : https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S030691920400065X?token=B4B4818B782B92D716BDD8F54AB1C792274194E3FC4D6B05B07D3042CDBDBCC154D119C9D20AABB00B3CAB2DF5860E61

Swaminathan, M.S. (2000)‘Genetic Engineering and Food Security: Ecological and Livelihood Issues,’ in Persley, G. J. and Lantin, M. M. (eds.) Agricultural biotechnology and the poor: Proceedings of an International Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 21-22 October, 1999, pp. 37-42 : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.547.3742&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The Politics of Food and International Trade: Trade Liberalisation and the WTO

Paarlberg, Robert (2010) Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapter Nine: The Politics of farm Subsidies and Trade) : book only available as a hard copy in the library

McMichael, Philip (2001) ‘The impact of globalisation, free trade and technology on food and nutrition in the new millennium,’ Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 60, pp.215–220.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3D93A274443CE96B39D761A1205F5990/S0029665101000258a.pdf/impact_of_globalisation_free_trade_and_technology_on_food_and_nutrition_in_the_new_millennium.pdf

George, Susan (1977) How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger. Middleesex:Penguin Books. (Chapter Four: Technology: Now Who Pays to Do What and to Whom?, pp89-112)  : https://www.tni.org/files/download/howtheotherhalfdies.pdf

kindly note that the books are available in the Library second floor, and for articles you need to click on the links below.

Books

Paarlberg, Robert (2010) Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 338.19 PAA (NB: this copy has been placed in the academic reserves)

Malthus, Thomas (1798) An Essay on the Principle of Population.  301.32 MAL

Escobar, E. (1995) Encountering Development. 338.9 ESC

Articles

McMichael, Philip (2000) ‘The Power of Food,’ Agriculture and Human Values, 17, pp21-33.

 Magdoff, Fred (2012) ‘Food as Commodity,’ Monthly Review, Volume 63, Issue 08 (January)

Friedmann, Harriet (2000) “What on earth is the modern world system? Food getting in the modern era and beyond,” 

George, Susan (1977) How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger. 

Hardin, G. (1968) ‘The tragedy of the Commons,’ Science, 162, pp. 1243 -1248.

Cleaver, Harry M. (1972) ‘The Contradictions of the Green Revolution,’ The American Economic Review, Vol. 62, No.1, pp 177 - 186)

Shiva, Vandana (1991) ‘The Green Revolution in the Punjab,’ The Ecologist, 21(2), pp. 57 – 60. 

Yapa, Lakshman (1993) ‘What are Improved Seeds? An Epistemology of Green Revolution,’ Economic Geography, 69 (3) pp. 254-273. 

Von Maltitz, G.P.  and Brent, A. (2009) ‘Assessing the Biofuel options for Southern Africa,’ Working Paper, CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment

Flammini, Alessandro (2008) ‘Biofuels and the Underlying Causes of High Food Prices,’ Global Bioenergy Partnership and Food and Agriculture Organization

OECD (20008) ‘Rising Food Prices: Causes and Consequences.’ OECD

Wahl, peter (2009) ‘Food Speculation: The Main Factor of the Price Bubble in 2008.’ Briefing Paper, World Economy, Ecology and Development. 

Olsson, Lennart (1993) ‘On the Causes of Famine: Drought, Desertification and Market Failure in the Sudan,’ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 22(6), pp 395-403.

Moseley, William G. (2011) ‘Behind Africa’s famine, more than just drought Famine isn’t inevitable,’ Washington Post, July 29, 2011. 

Uvin, Peter (1993) ‘Regime, Surplus, and Self-Interest: The International Politics of Food Aid,’ International Studies Quarterly, 36(3), pp. 293-312.

O’Brien, Jay (1985) ‘Sowing the Seeds of Famine: The Political Economy of Food Deficits in Sudan,’ Review of African Political Economy, 12(33), pp.23-32.