Agriculture Reference
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eating, environmental sustainability, and human health. The push to lib-
eralize trade has been accompanied by varied and sometimes creative cri-
tiques of ''globalization'' that have exposed the limitations and injustices
of U.S. agribusiness production systems that relyon heavy inputs of agro-
chemicals, irrigation, and government subsidies. In Latin America, new
rural-based resistance movements have emerged to challenge the power
of nation-states and elites to control access to resources. In short, oppor-
tunities fordebate, confrontation, and experimentation exist on local and
international levels. The challenge is to ensure that alternative models of
agricultural production acknowledge the dynamic connections between
places of production and consumption, and between social and environ-
mental transformations.
