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If the many social, environmental, and economic crises facing the planet are to be reversed, a good place to start is to rebuild local food economies. Food is something everyone, everywhere, needs every day, so even small changes in the way it is produced and marketed can offer immense benefits.
Bringing the Food Economy Home shows how a shift towards the local would protect and rebuild agricultural diversity. It would give farmers a bigger share of the money spent on food, and provide consumers with healthier, fresher food at more affordable prices. It would reduce transport, greenhouse gas emissions, and the need for toxic agricultural chemicals. It would lessen the need for storage, packaging, refrigeration and artificial additives. And it would help revitalize rural economies and communities in both the industrialized and the developing world.
With benefits for farmer and consumer, for urban and rural dweller, and for the economy as well as the environment, local food is a powerful solution-multiplier, one that we cannot afford to ignore.
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Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and a regular scholar in residence at Schumacher College in Devon. She is the co-author of From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture (Zed Books, new edition 2000). Steven Gorelick is the US Programs Director of ISEC, and a member of the editorial board of The Ecologist magazine. Todd Merrifield has a master's in geography from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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"Want to know what's wrong with globalization? Read this book. Want to know what you can do? Read this book."
"Ideal for filling in gaps in your education, bolstering arguments, and persuading the unconvinced."
"This is a well written, timely book which will help food producers, marketers and consumers, as well as food economists."
"An accessible and comprehensive introduction to the thinking behind the burgeoning 'local food' movement."
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- PublisherZed Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1842772333
- ISBN 13 9781842772331
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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