Book description
'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors'
Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK
'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources'
Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia
'Full of supporting evidence and clear arguments'
Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, US
'A wonderful book, put together with such vision and passion'
Mark Ritchie, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, US
'A superb volume. This is a valuable monograph that all policy-makers, scholars and farmers must read to understand their roles and responsibilities'
Vo-Tong Xuan, Angiang University, Vietnam
'Beautifully written. The implications of the book's ideas are deep and extensive'
Julia Guivant, University of Florianopolis, Brazil
Something is wrong with our agricultural and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in recent decades, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished, and further millions suffer for eating too much food or the wrong sort.
Agri-Culture envisages the expansion of a new form of food production and consumption founded on more ecological principles and in harmony with the cultures, knowledges and collective capacities of the producers themselves. It draws on many stories of successful agricultural transformation in developing and industrialized countries, but with a warning that true prosperity will depend on the radical reform of the institutions and policies that control global food futures, and fundamental changes in the way we think. The time has come for the next agricultural revolution.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of Specialist Terms
- Preface to a Revolution
- Chapter 1 Landscapes Lost and Found
- Chapter 2 Monoscapes
- Chapter 3 Reality Cheques
- Chapter 4 Food for All
- Chapter 5 Only Reconnect
- Chapter 6 The Genetics Controversy
- Chapter 7 Ecological Literacy
- Chapter 8 Crossing the Internal Frontiers
- Notes
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Agri-Culture
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136572111
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