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Who Really Feeds the World?

The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

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Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful manifesto calling for agricultural justice and genuine sustainability, drawing upon Shiva’s thirty years of research and accomplishments in the field. Instead of relying on genetic modification and large-scale monocropping to solve the world’s food crisis, she proposes that we look to agroecology—the knowledge of the interconnectedness that creates food—as a truly life-giving alternative to the industrial paradigm. Shiva succinctly and eloquently lays out the networks of people and processes that feed the world, exploring issues of diversity, the needs of small famers, the importance of seed saving, the movement toward localization, and the role of women in producing the world's food.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 11, 2016
      Shiva (Soil Not Oil), noted environmental activist and physicist, relays the emphatic message that "industrial globalized agriculture driven by greed and profits" direly threatens the wellbeing of Earth and all its inhabitants, and that "ecological and just alternatives have become an imperative." Shiva's "agroecological" manifesto identifies several distressing social and environmental trends stemming from industrialized agricultural practices, including the rampancy of malnutrition and food-based diseases, critical endangerment of pollinators such as bees, pollution of Earth's water and atmosphere by industrial farms, displacement and impoverishment of small-scale farmers, and privatization of seeds. Into this ominous commentary Shiva incorporates feminist thought, arguing that "when women control the food system, everyone gets their fair share to eat," as well as warnings against the prevalence of genetically modified monocultures that threaten the biodiversity necessary to sustain a healthy planet. While this urgent critique of "agribusiness" seems unlikely to persuade those readers not already in agreement with its author, it takes a productively interdisciplinary approach to the modern-day food crisis and plots a tentative route toward "a food and agricultural system that is at peace with the Earth."

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