Food for the future : agriculture for a global age
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Food for the future : agriculture for a global age
Polity, c2005
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Le grain de l'avenir
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
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Description
It's not easy to eat well. To choose food wisely, you need to know where it comes from and how it's produced. As consumers, most of us don't know what we're getting and eating in our supermarkets and restaurants. When rumours and food scares circulate in the media, we panic. Since most of us know very little about the real state of agriculture today and the ways in which the global agricultural industry produces the foods that end up on our plates, we have no basis on which to make informed judgements. In this important new book, Jose Bove and Francois Dufour - two men from modest farming backgrounds who have become international icons of the resistance to global capitalism - unveil the workings of the agricultural industry today and lay down the principles for the creation of a new agriculture for the twenty-first century. Following on from their international bestseller The World is not For Sale, Bove and Dufour have joined forces again to build a constructive programme for the food of the future. They seek to make available to every citizen the facts they need in order to understand the crisis of agriculture today and to see how we can move beyond it. Presenting a positive agenda for a new kind of agriculture, they lay the foundations for a renewal of trust between farmers and citizen-consumers in a way that would bring food - and the production of food - back into the heart of modern society.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Glossary
Maps
Introduction. A Strategy to Rebuild Farming
Chapter 1 Sites of Memory
Chapter 2 How the Citizen Sees Farming
Chapter 3 But Where are the Peasant Farmers?
Chapter 4 The Spiral of the 'Glorious Years'
Chapter 5 The True Cost of the Common Agricultural Policy
Chapter 6 From Junk Food to Good Food
Chapter 7 An Economic Nonsense and an Ecological Aberration
Chapter 8 The Agricultural 'Titanic'
Chapter 9 How to Emerge from the Crisis. A Diagnosis and the Beginnings of a Cure
Chapter 10 Have We Learned the Lesson of the Epidemics?
Chapter 11 Food Follies and the Label Lottery
Chapter 12 Landowners, Farmers and Managers. Who Owns the Land?
Chapter 13 No to Rampant Globalization
Chapter 14 If All the Small Farmers in the World
Chapter 15 The Weapons of the Peaceful citizen
Chapter 16 Agriculture is Humanism
Chapter 17 How to Teach Children about Farming
Chapter 18 The Duties of Public Research
Chapter 19 Farming Think Tanks and International Workshops
Chapter 20 The Pillars of Peasant Wisdom
Chapter 21 A Farming Charter and a Declaration of Rights and Duties
Conclusion The Food War will not Happen
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