Who Really Feeds the World? : The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

Debunking the notion that our present meals disaster have to be addressed via industrial agriculture and genetic modification, creator and activist Vandana Shiva argues that these forces are in truth those liable for the starvation drawback within the first place. Who Actually Feeds the World? is a strong manifesto calling for agricultural justice and real sustainability, drawing upon Shiva’s thirty years of analysis and accomplishments within the area. As a substitute of counting on genetic modification and large-scale monocropping to resolve the world’s meals disaster, she proposes that we glance to agroecology–the information of the interconnectedness that creates meals–as a very life-giving different to the economic paradigm. Shiva succinctly and eloquently lays out the networks of individuals and processes that feed the world, exploring problems with range, the wants of small famers, the significance of seed saving, the motion towards localization, and the position of ladies in producing the world’s meals.