Date 13 February 2020
Pages 259
Format cm 13 x 21
Price € 19.00
EAN 9782283033746
Publisher Website www.buchetchastel.fr

How Can Farmers Save the World?

Author Sylvie Brunel
Publisher Buchet Chastel
GENRE Essay
Keywords Autonomy
Traditional agriculture can feed the whole world.

By 2050, we’ll need to produce a billion more tons of cereal grains to feed the Earth’s 10 billion projected inhabitants. Just when we thought we'd conquered hunger, we realize it is still a tremendous threat. The food-access wars have already begun. In order to respond to such challenges, we must call on the full range of practices: organic and sustainable farms alongside permaculture and industrial farms, heirloom seeds, eating local and international trade, and more. Sylvie Brunel delivers a powerful and incisive essay on the future of agriculture, painting a portrait of the third agricultural revolution, which will drawn on ecology and agronomy, economics and sociology, farms and firms.

  • Sales in France 15,000 copies
  • Rights Sold China
  • As of: December 2021