Ralph C. Martin

Food Security (eBook, ePUB)

From Excess to Enough

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Canadians are failing to balance reasonable food consumption with sufficient and sustainable production.

The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts.

At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste - householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced.

A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459744042
• Artikelnr.: 57608261

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