Agriculture in society - Topics

Cheap imported grain can ruin the farmers it was meant to feed Food deserts: when the nearest fresh produce is a bus ride away The Maya city-states collapsed while their farmers kept farming Which societies were hit hardest by the Little Ice Age and why? The Big Mac in India has no beef: global brands rewrite themselves locally Fracking and farming compete for the same groundwater When the family farm is sold to agribusiness the village school closes next A dam built upstream leaves farmers downstream with dry fields Seasonal farm pickers live in housing no inspector ever visits Young people keep leaving farming and nobody is taking over the land Farm debt and farmer suicides: the numbers nobody wants to publish Land reform: why the same policy succeeds in one country and stalls in the next Land grabs and inheritance rules: who actually holds title to the fields A third of the food grown is never eaten and most of it rots on farms Seed patents make it illegal for farmers to save their own grain Pesticide drift from neighbouring estates and the children nobody tests Farmworkers feed the country and cannot afford to live near the fields Water and grazing disputes turn violent faster than wage disputes do Your food passed through six hands and four countries before it reached the plate Animal welfare rules versus cheap meat: who absorbs the extra cost Fair trade labels: does the extra dollar reach the grower How does mechanized farming change rural social relations