Rebels for the soil : the rise of the global organic food and farming movement /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
Temas:
Organic farming > Social aspects.
Social movements.
Agriculture biologique > Aspect social.
Mouvements sociaux.
social movements.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Safety.
Exploitation agricole extensive.
Agriculture biologique.
Histoire.
Organismes génétiquement modifiés.
Organic farming > Social aspects
Social movements
Royaume-Uni.
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social movements
  • Saving the soil
  • Poisonous elixirs
  • Small, beautiful and reorganized, 1960s and 1970s
  • The rise of organic food retailing, 1980s
  • Fighting the future : against GM crops
  • Peak organics?

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