From the ground up : rethinking industrial agriculture
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From the ground up : rethinking industrial agriculture
Zed Books in association with International Society for Ecology and Culture, 2001
2nd rev. ed
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- : pbk.
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Rev. ed. of: From the ground up / Peter Goering. 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Modern industrial agriculture is in crisis. In our obsession with 'efficiency' and short-term profit, we are losing all real connection with the natural world. As a result, the dream of global abundance promised by the introduction of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and hybrid seeds is becoming a nightmare of health risks, degraded land and ailing communities. The way we produce our food is destructive and quite simply unsustainable.
From the Ground Up sets the decline of agriculture within the broader context of industrialisation as a whole, and explores some of the fundamental principles which underlie the 'growth-at-any-cost' thinking of modern society. At the same time, it documents the growing public distrust of conventional agricultural practices, and highlights some of the most promising alternatives leading to more sane, environmentally healthy ways of producing food.
This book is a valuable reference for those concerned with the future of agriculture - in the industrialised countries as well as in the South, where agricultural development continues to be modelled on the industrial ideal.
目次
Introduction: Shifting from Global to Local: Sowing the Seeds of Community
Part I: Industrial Agriculture: Broken Promises
1. The Context of Industrial Agriculture
2. New Seeds: Meeting Corporate Needs
3. Chemical Fertilisers: Artificial Abundance
4. Pesticides: The Deadly Solution
5. Animal Husbandry: Farm as Factory
6. Mechanisation: The Technological Treadmill
7. The Bigger Picture
8. Biotechnology and 'Free' Trade: More of the Same
Part II: The New Agriculture: Back to Basics
9. The Context of Ecological Agriculture
10. Learning From the Past
11. Techniques of Ecological Agriculture
12. Positive Trends
13. 'Counter-Development' and New Ways Forward
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