Help on research sources

[Sendo]

I'm doing inter-disciplinary research and was wondering if anyone knew of good sources analyzing the history of the Latin American with respect to the natural environment. I would especially like anything that links Free Trade or liberal market reforms or US imperialism to environmental issues.

For an idea of what I mean here are some things I am researching:
--Liberal market reforms which broke down the traditional ejidos (Mestizo/Indian cooperative farming villages using safe tricultural farming) led to corporate, profit-driven agriculture which has exhausted the soil, sapped water resources, and resulted in pesticides (which are expensive and harmful though resulting higher crop yield. Ridiculous since there was no lack of "not enough food being produced" Markets won't carry peasant farmers' food b/c of price and they have to sell out to agribusiness. Or the peasants have to sell more at a lower price....then they exhaust the soil and/or use pesticides and monoculture.
This relates to Marx's writings on production for sake of "exchange value." Famrs produce for profit, not fulfillment of need.

--Another problem is NAFTA. NAFTA has destroyed Mexican agriculture, making Mexico dependent on a central source for food (US Plain States). The transportation of this results in CO2 being released (But I have no scientific figures on this)

--Any liberal market or free trade policy has made income become consolidated (Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine helped out here). Many people are unable to afford the already too plentiful food, spurring further production of food.

--Agent Orange in War on Drugs??


Thanks

[zelda]

The worldwide web has so much information, and we don't always know how to look for it. Search engines help, but also go to the library. If they don't have the information you need, they have books that show you how to access the web so you can find what your looking for.