Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement

by Matthew Reed

Book Overview

This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyzes 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 1930's, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844075974
• ISBN13: 9781844075973
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"