... and industrial employment. Contractors Gómez Cristobal Growers —agricultural —militancy of Wailuku Agribusiness Corporation Agricultural Workers Protection Act Civil Rights Act of 1964 Fair Labor Standards Act —protective legislation Lower Rio Grande Valley Sugar industry Griffin and Brand of McAllen...

...Southern studies’ hesitancy to engage with conversations about the Anthropocene presents something of a paradox, Melanie Benson Taylor writes, given the region’s long heritage of both large-scale agribusiness and ecological stewardship, and especially given its deeply rooted, passionate investments...

... on the modernization of guaraná production—intertwined with the rise in agribusiness and rural inequality, increased soda consumption, and overnutrition-- the chapter explores transformations in agriculture and diet in Brazil symptomatic of the Green Revolution and the nutrition transition in developing countries...

...This chapter analyzes the agricultural community of Pueblos Unidos, another geographical locale of Movimiento sin Tierra (MST) organizing. Pueblos Unidos is one of the areas unprotected by the state and under constant threat from agribusiness and extralegal violence. There is great insecurity...

...Chapter Four in Making the Green Revolution traces the history of sugarcane production and sugar milling in the Cauca Valley, the most important region for sugar production in Colombia. It outlines the emergence of the early sugarcane agribusiness sector in the region, then shows...

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... Bolivia. A revolutionary nation-state that sought to use colonization to transform traditional Indigenous subjects into citizens welcomed foreign Mennonites and explicitly freed them from the central components of modern citizenship. Seeking to develop modern, market-oriented agribusiness on its eastern...