Food Security - From Excess to Enough

Today, mainstream agriculture pushes excess food while depleting soil, water, air, and energy instead of growing just enough for adequate, healthy consumption.

List of contents

Foreword

Introduction: More than Enough

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

Bibliography

About the author

Ralph C. Martin is a professor of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, where he also served as the Loblaw Chair in Sustainable Food Production from 2011 to 2016. In 2001, he founded the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada. Ralph lives
in Guelph, Ontario.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph C Martin, Ralph C. Martin
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781459744028
• ISBN: 978-1-4597-4402-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Point of View; Point of View
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics