1 Introduction
The growing push toward industrialization and globalization
with its emphasis on export crops including transgenic crops
such as soybeans for cattle feed for countries such as China,
Europe, USA, and the rapidly increasing demand for biofuel
crops (sugar cane, maize, soybean, oil palm, eucalyptus,
etc.) are increasingly reshaping the agriculture and food
supply of many developing nations, with yet unknown
economic, social and ecological impacts and risks (Holt-
Gimenez and Patel 2009). Despite these unfolding trends,
the peasant or small farm sector that comprises myriad of
ecologically based agricultural styles, offers promising