An account of problems afflicting agriculture, food production and our relationship to the land - and how to resolve them. It draws on stories of successful transformation, showing that there is no alternative to radical reform of national agricultural, rural and food policies and institutions.[...]
Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone's needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity over the past century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. This book describes a different form of agriculture: one founded more on ecological principl[...]