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Understanding how food systems are not just about the theft of labor, but also about the nourishing of communities offers a way of breaking open a purely workerist approach to understanding how transformation might happen.
Matthew J. Haugen • Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
Food subsidies are ubiquitous in the Middle East: Egypt spent $3.8 billion in food subsidies in 2008–2009 (2 percent of the GDP).2 Indonesia has the Rakshin Program, which distributes subsidized rice. Many states in India have a similar program. In Orissa, for example, the poor are entitled to 55 pounds of rice a month at about 1 rupee per pound, l
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Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
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A potential dividend of a shift towards agroecology is a recognition not only of the imperial character of American farming even today and the need to engage in reparations for the destruction of agriculture south of the border, but also a recognition of the deep knowledge and work that is required to make agriculture possible.