Eating tomorrow : agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food

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Label

Eating tomorrow : agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food

Title remainder

agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food

Statement of responsibility

Timothy A. Wise

Creator

• Wise, Timothy A., 1955-

Author

• Wise, Timothy A., 1955-

Subject

• Family farms
• Family farms
• Food supply
• Agricultural industries
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food
• Food supply
• Agricultural industries

Language

eng

Summary

A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wises Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmerswho already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countriescan show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all

Cataloging source

DNAL/DLC

Dewey number

338.1

Index

index present

LC call number

HD9000.5

LC item number

.W489 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography