000			01841cam a22002417i 4500
020			_a9781853399947 (hardback)
020			_a9781552669754 (paperback)
020			_a9781780449944 (pdf)
040			_cBTCTA
082	0	4	_a577 ROS 2017 A035 Or.
100	1		_aRosset, Peter,
245	1	0	_aAgroecology : _bscience and politics /
300			_axiv, 146 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
490	0		_aAgrarian change and peasant studies series ;
500			_a"Published in the rest of the world by Practical Action Publishing ... Warwickshire, UK"--Title page verso.
520			_a"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."--
650		0	_aAgricultural ecology.
650		0	_aAgriculture
650		0	_aEcology
650		4	_aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General.
700	1		_aAltieri, Miguel A.,
942			_cAEDBB
999			_c20780 _d20780