Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature Contributor(s): Pretty Obe, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 1853839256 ISBN-13: 9781853839252 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2002 Annotation: Something is wrong with our agricultural and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?This book draws on many stories of successful transformation. A sustainable agriculture making the best of nature and people's knowledge and collective capacities has been showing increasingly good promise. Everyone is in favor of sustainability, yet few go seriously beyond the fine words. This book shows that there is no alternative to radical reform of national agricultural, rural and food policies, and institutions - the time has come for the next agricultural revolution. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - General |
Dewey: 333.761 |
LCCN: 2002009735 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.32" W x 8.68" (0.77 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors' 'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources' 'Full of supporting evidence and clear arguments' 'A wonderful book, put together with such vision and passion' 'A superb volume. This is a valuable monograph that all policy-makers, scholars and farmers must read to understand their roles and responsibilities' 'Beautifully written. The implications of the book's ideas are deep and extensive' 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. |