Food's Frontier The Next Green Revolution

Name: Food's Frontier The Next Green Revolution
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ISBN: 9780520232631

ISBN-10: 0520232631

ISBN-13: 9780520232631

Edition: 2001

Authors: Richard Manning

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Food's Frontier provides a survey of pioneering agricultural research projects underway in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, China, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru by a writer both well-grounded technically and sensitive to social and cultural issues. The book starts from the premise that the "Green Revolution" which averted mass starvation a generation ago is not a long-term solution to global food needs and has created its own very serious problems. Based on increasing yields by extensive use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and monoculture--agribusiness-style production of single crops--this approach has poisoned both land and farm workers, encouraged new strains of pests that are…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Richard Manning is the author of Last Stand, A Good House, Grassland, and One Round River. He lives in Montana.



The Seed: The Case for a Second Green Revolution


An Island in Africa: Global Methods, Local Choices [Ethiopia]


How Things Fall Apart: When Politics Pushes People Against Nature's Limits [Zimbabwe]


To Work in Peace: Visionaries in Violent Times [Uganda]


From Basket Case to Bread Basket: When Biotechnology Has a Brain Trust [India]


The Critical Mass: The Fate of Farming in an Industrializing World [Nanjing, China]


Genetic Revolution: Bioengineering on the Loose [Shanghai, China]


Forging a Magic Bullet: Technology Based in Biodiversity [Chile and Brazil]


In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World: Sustaining Traditional Farming and Genetic Resources [Mexico]


Roots: Restoring Rural Wisdom [Peru]


The Genie in the Genome: Bioengineering in Context


A Common Ground: Food, Cities, and the Integrity of Rural Life


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index