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Eating tomorrow, agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food, Timothy A. Wise

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Eating tomorrow

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Timothy A. Wise

agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food

A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wises Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all

Introduction -- pt. I. Into Africa : the new colonialism -- The Malawi miracle and the limits of Africa's green revolution -- The rise and fail of the largest land grab in Africa -- Land-poor farmers in a land-rich country : Zambia's maize paradox -- pt. II. The roots of our problems. Iowa and the cornification of the United States -- Fueling the food crisis -- Monsanto invades corn's Garden of Eden in Mexico -- pt. III. Trading away the right to food. NAFTA's assault on Mexico's family farmers -- Trading in hypocrisy : India vs. World Trade Organization -- Conclusion : the battle for the future of food