Ralph C Martin

Food Security

From Excess to Enough

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Today, mainstream agriculture pushes excess food while depleting soil, water, air, and energy instead of growing just enough for adequate, healthy consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781459744028
• ISBN-10: 1459744020
• Artikelnr.: 54837818

Autorenporträt

Ralph C. Martin is a professor of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, where he also served as the Loblaw Chair in Sustainable Food Production from 2011 to 2016. In 2001, he founded the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada. Ralph lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction: More than Enough
1 Indigenous Food Systems as Millennial Models
2 Apparent Choice and Declining Freedom
3 Pushing Production to Address Population Growth
4 Balancing Production and Consumption
5 Food and Health
6 Wasted Food and Attendant Losses
7 Food for People, Feed for Livestock
8 Optimizing Energy and Nitrogen Use
9 Wonky Weather and Protean Production
10 The Foundation of Building Soil for Farming
11 Recovering Diversity
12 Quintessence
Conclusion: Respect and Gratitude for Enough Food
Acknowledgements
Bibliography