From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture

by Peter Goering, John Page, Helena Norberg-Hodge

Book Overview

Modern industrial agriculture is in crisis. In our obsession with 'efficiency' and short-term profit, we are losing all real connection with the natural world. As a result, the dream of global abundance promised by the introduction of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and hybrid seeds is becoming a nightmare of health risks, degraded land and ailing communities. The way we produce our food is destructive and quite simply unsustainable. From the Ground...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856499944
• ISBN13: 9781856499941
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.6"