Research & Papers:

  1. The Role of Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Food System and the American Diet (USDA)
  2. Soil Not Oil Excerpt (Vandana Shiva)
  3. The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture (Tony Weis)
  4. Carbon Metabolism: Global Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Biospheric Rift (Brett Clack and Richard York)
  5. Environmental Impacts of Food Production (Our World in Data)
  6. You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local (Our World in Data)
  7. How fossil fuel-derived pesticides and plastics harm health, biodiversity, and the climate (Barbara A Demeneix)
  8. Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions (Center for International Environmental Law)
  9. Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession (Fred Magdoff)
  10. Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture Continues (USDA)
  11. Cropland expansion outpaces agricultural and biofuel policies in the United States (Tyler J Lark er al.)
  12. Bigger Farms, Bigger Problems (Union of Concerned Scientists)
  13. Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity (Kevin Van Sundert et al.)
  14. Crop Production 2021 Summary (USDA)
  15. Pesticide Atlas

Newspapers & Media:

  1. A Rational Agriculture Is Incompatible with Capitalism (Monthly Review)
  2. A food system hooked on fossil fuels is bad for farmers and families (Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit)
  3. Industrial Agriculture, an Extraction Industry Like Fossil Fuels, a Growing Driver of Climate Change (Inside Climate News)