The Peasant as ‘Canary’? Not too early warnings of global catastrophe

Philip Mcmichael

Development, 2008, vol. 51, issue 4, 504-511

Abstract: Philip McMichael argues that an ecological sensibility is needed to challenge corporate retailers appropriating local foods. To address the conjuncture of food, energy, and climate crises, the world needs a reversal of the modernist distaste for smallholder farming, fishing, and pastoralism – rejecting the view of the peasant as (disposable) canary, and recognizing the adaptability of peasants to ecological changes under conditions of global warming. Development (2008) 51, 504–511. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.56

Date: 2008
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