the rise of the global organic food and farming movement
Edición de la obra Rebels for the soil
| Autor | Matthew Reed |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Earthscan |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Lugar | London, Washington, DC |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 168 |
| Formato | [electronic resource] : |
| ISBN-13 | 9781849776479 |
| ISBN-10 | 1849776474 |
| OCLC | 669493454 |
| Número de Cutter | R325r |
This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyses and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930s, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century, the author traces the rise to prominence of the movement. As well as providing a historical account, the.