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    1. "One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America": An Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Carriacou

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ryden,David Beck (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring2013
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Interdisciplinary History
    Journal Title Details:
    43(4) : 539-570
    Notes:
    The Caribbean island of Carriacou was ceded to the British by the French after the Seven Years’War (1763). Carriacou’s population of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Scots, and free people of color, along with their enslaved workers, comprised a distinctive slaveholding society in comparison to that of the old British colonies.

    2. <States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940, by Stuart George McCook>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Palmer,Steven Paul (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    April, 2003
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    59(4) : 594
    Notes:
    According to the reviewer, McCook writes in a clear and effective style. His approach to the subject is neither overly theoretical nor oversimplified

    8. Haitian Peasants March against Monsanto

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    La Via Campesina (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Jan 2011
    Published:
    St. Louis, MO: WD Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Synthesis/Regeneration
    Journal Title Details:
    54 : 16-19
    Notes:
    La Via Campesina asserts that sustainable, small-scale farming is more efficient at conserving and increasing biodiversity and forests than industrial agriculture.

    9. Indigestible Recipe: Rice, Chicken Wings, and International Financial Institutions: Or Hunger Politics in Haiti

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gros,Jean-Germain (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    May 2010
    Published:
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Black Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    40(5) : 974-986
    Notes:
    Policies imposed on Haiti by international financial institutions (i.e., the World Bank and International Monetary Fund) since the 1980s, such as currency devaluation and trade liberalization, negated Haitian agricultural performance and the capacity of the Haitian state to manage the economy, thus exacerbating the current food crisis.

    10. Role and Limitations of Peasant Co-operatives in Rural Jamaica: The Case of the St. Mary Rural Development Project

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Weis,Tony (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Canadian Journal of Development Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    21(3) : 725-751
    Notes:
    The work examines the social and economic conditions of the region and the problems associated in development projects for the area