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

ISBN-13: 9781844075973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 168 str.

Matthew Reed

Opis

This study examines the rise of organic agriculture from a social movement perspective, comparing it with other environmental movements. It shows how the movement reflected social and political ideologies of the times, including the far-right in the 1940s and resistance to GM crops more recently.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Social Movements 3. Saving the Soil 4. Poisonous Elixirs 5. Small, Beautiful and Reorganized, 1960's and 1970's 6. The Rise of Organic Food Retailing, 1980's 7. Fighting the Future– Against GM Crops 8. Peak Organics?

O autorze

Matt Reed is a Senior Research Fellow at the Countryside and Community Research Institute based at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK.