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Food security : from excess to enough / Ralph C. Martin ; foreword by Elizabeth May.
"The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts. At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste -- householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced. A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough."-- Provided by publisher.
Détails de la notice
- ISBN : 9781459744028 (pbk.)
- Description physique : xiv, 208 pages ; 21 cm.
- Éditeur : Toronto : Dundurn, [2019]
- Droit d'auteur: ©2019
Descriptions du contenu
- Note de bibliographie, etc.:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Note de dépouillement structurée :
- 1. - Indigenous food systems as millennial models -- 2. - Apparent choice and declining freedom -- 3. - Pushing production to address population growth -- 4. - Balancing production and consumption -- 5. - Food and health -- 6. - Wasted food and attendant losses -- 7. - Food for people, feed for livestock -- 8. - Optimizing energy and nitrogen use -- 9. - Wonky weather and protean production -- 10. - The foundation of building soil for farming -- 11. - Recovering diversity -- 12. - Quintessence -- Conclusion : respect and gratitude for enough food -- Acknowledgements.
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