Vandana Shiva

Who Really Feeds the World?

The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An in-depth look at agroecology, an alternative to the world's current food crisis"--provided by publisher.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: North Atlantic Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781623170622
• ISBN-10: 1623170621
• Artikelnr.: 43923491

Autorenporträt

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Staying Alive, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, and Globalization's New Wars. Dr. Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011). In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Agroecology feeds the world
not a violent knowledge paradigm 2. Living soil feeds the world
not chemical fertilizers 3. Bees and butterflies feed the world
not poisons and pesticides 4. Biodiversity feeds the world
not toxic monocultures 5. Small-scale farmers feed the world
not large-scale industrial farms 6. Seed freedom feeds the world
not seed dictatorship 7. Localization feeds the world
not globalization 8. Women feed the world
not corporations 9. The way forward