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Agribusiness in the Americas

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Examines the problems of agribusiness in the U.S. and Latin America, the expansion of corporate involvement in agriculture, and industry trends for the future

Author(s): Burbach, Roger; Flynn, Patricia
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Year: 1981

Language: English
Pages: 314
City: New York

Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
Part One: Agribusiness in the United States
1. Crisis and Change in U.S. Agriculture: An Overview by Carol MacLennan and Richard Walker 20
2. Exports for Empire: U.S. Agricultural Policies in the 1970s 41
3. The U.S. Grain Arsenal: Food as a Weapon 62
Part Two: Agribusiness in Latin America
4. Modernization Capitalist Style: An Introduction 82
5. The Grim Reapers: Transnationals and Their Impact 107
6. Latin America in the World Market: The Ties that Bind 127
7. The Agricultural Workforce:
From Peasant to Proletarian 139
Part Three: The Corporate Connection
8. The Del Monte Corporation: Planting the Seeds of Empire 164
9. Canned Imperialism: Del Monte in Mexico 182
10. Modern Plantation Systems: Del Monte in the Pacific 192
11. A New "Banana Republic": Del Monte in Guatemala 206
12. The Grain Trade: A Seedy Business 220
13. Harvest of Profits:
The World Empire of Cargill, Inc. 230
Appendix: Multinational Investments in Latin America 253
Notes 283
Index 305