1st Edition
The Politics of Industrial Agriculture
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more routine maltreatment of farm animals; and the undermining of Third World economies and livelihoods... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Industrial Agriculture: Heading for Disaster
2. Pushed onto the Treadmill
3. Caught on the Treadmill
4. The New Barons
5. Undermining Alternatives
6. Mainstream Responses
7. The Real Agenda: GATT and Biotechnology
8. Movements for Change
9. New Paths
References
Index
Biography
Tracey Clunies-Ross; Nicholas Hildyard
