The soybean through world history : lessons for sustainable agrofood systems
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The soybean through world history : lessons for sustainable agrofood systems
（Routledge studies in food, society and environment）（Earthscan from Routledge）
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
- Examines the shifting roles of the soybean throughout world history and reveals how this reflects the development of our present global agrofood system
- Provides a historical, theoretically grounded and empirically based assessment
- Considers the soybean's future role in a desirable agrofood system which improves human health, culture and livelihoods, biosphere stewardship and the provision of ecosystem services
Table of Contents
1. Combining insights from political economy and environmental history: what can the soybean tell us about changes in the global agrofood system?
2. The first soybean cycle (domestication to 900 CE)
3. The second soybean cycle (1000-1860)
4. The roots of the third soybean cycle (1860-1949)
5. The regime of the third soybean cycle (1950-today)
6. Historicizing soy: towards a new rupture?
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