01841cam a22002417i 4500 9781853399947 (hardback) 9781552669754 (paperback) 9781780449944 (pdf) BTCTA 577 ROS 2017 A035 Or. Rosset, Peter, Agroecology : science and politics / xiv, 146 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Agrarian change and peasant studies series ; "Published in the rest of the world by Practical Action Publishing ... Warwickshire, UK"--Title page verso. "Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of being dismissed by mainstream institutions and defended in obscurity by grassroots movements and farmers, agroecology is suddenly in fashion. The UN Food and and Agriculture Organization, government ministries and even corporations are jumping on the bandwagon. But, are they pushing the same agroecology as developed by pioneering farmers and scientists and pushed for by peasant social movements, or are they seeking to co-opt the concept and give it different content? Rosset and Altieri, two of the world's leading agroecologists, outline the principles, history and currents of agroecological thought, the scientific evidence for agroecology, the social aspects of bringing agroecology to scale and the contemporary politics of agroecology."-- Agricultural ecology. Agriculture Ecology TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General. Altieri, Miguel A., AEDBB 20780 20780 0 0 0 577_000000000000000_ROS_2017_A035_OR 0 92293 LBA LBA A035 2022-11-30 577 ROS 2017 A035 Or. a069914 2022-11-30 AEDBB