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Who Really Feeds the World?

Autor Vandana Shiva
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2016
In "Who Really Feeds the World?, " author and activist Vandana Shiva debunks the notion that our current food crisis is inevitable and must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification. In fact, Shiva argues, those forces are the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. As an alternative, Shiva emphasizes agroecology, the knowledge and science of the complex interactions that produce our food. She succinctly and eloquently lays out the networks of people and processes that feed the world, exploring issues of diversity, the needs of small famers, the importance of seed saving, the movement toward localization, and the role of women in producing the world's food. Refuting widely held beliefs about the global food crisis, Shiva delivers a powerful manifesto calling for agricultural justice and sustainability, drawing upon her thirty years of research and accomplishments in the field.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781623170622
ISBN-10: 1623170621
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS

Notă biografică

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Staying Alive, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, and Globalization's New Wars. Dr. Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011). In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.

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'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.'
The Guardian

'A star among environmental, activist, and anti-corporate circles.'
Vice

The world's food supply is in the grip of a profound crisis. Humanity's ability to feed itself is threatened by a wasteful, globalized agricultural industry, whose relentless pursuit of profit is stretching our planet's ecosystems to breaking point. Rising food prices have fuelled instability across the world, while industrialized agriculture has contributed to a health crisis of massive proportions, with effects ranging from obesity and diabetes to cancers caused by pesticides.

In Who Really Feeds the World?, leading environmentalist Vandana Shiva rejects the dominant, greed-driven paradigm of industrial agriculture, arguing instead for a radical rethink of our relationship with food and with the environment. Industrial agriculture can never be truly sustainable, but it is within our power to create a food system that works for the health and well-being of the planet and all humanity, by developing ecologically friendly farming practices, nurturing biodiversity, and recognizing the invaluable role that small farmers can play in feeding a hungry world.

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Agroecology feeds the world, not a violent knowledge paradigm
2. Living soil feeds the world, not chemical fertilizers
3. Bees and butterflies feed the world, not poisons and pesticides
4. Biodiversity feeds the world, not toxic monocultures
5. Small-scale farmers feed the world, not large-scale industrial farms
6. Seed freedom feeds the world, not seed dictatorship
7. Localization feeds the world, not globalization
8. Women feed the world, not corporations
9. The way forward

Recenzii

The South's best-known environmentalist.
This is a tour de force that will stimulate and inspire readers to be part of the positive changes towards a better way of living, growing and eating.
A world leading expert on food sustainability.
One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.
If humans survive this century, it will be in no small measure due to the work of Vandana Shiva, one of today's most important writers, thinkers, and activists. Her work is relentlessly compassionate, courageous, and bitingly clear. This profound book should be required reading for anyone who grows - or eats - food.