The Global History of Organic Farming

An engaging study. Summing Up: Recommended.

Auteur
Gregory A. Barton is a noted historian of British, world, and environmental history. He is Professor of History at Western Sydney University and the University of Johannesburg, and is the author of Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism, Lord Palmeston and the Empire of Trade, and Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture.

Texte du rabat

This book uncovers the untold history of the organic farming movement and its massive impact on the world of agriculture and society; how it changed our consumer habits and our ethics, pointing back to the inspiration of the agricultural past, and demanding that we think about how our food is grown and the effect our daily habits have on nature.

Contenu

• 1: Roots of the Organic Challenge

• 2: The Cultural Soil of Organic Farming

• 3: Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire

• 4: The Howards in India

• 5: The Search for Pre-Modern Wisdom

• 6: The Compost Wars

• 7: To the Empire and Beyond

• 8: The Globalization of Organic Farming

• 9: The 1980s to the Present