Food Security: From Excess to Enough - Couverture souple

Martin, Ralph C.

 
9781459744028: Food Security: From Excess to Enough
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1459744020 ISBN 13 : 9781459744028
Editeur : Dundurn Group Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Canadians are failing to balance reasonable food consumption with sufficient and sustainable production.

The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts.

At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste -- householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced.

A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough.

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À propos des auteurs

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.



Elizabeth May is a politician, environmental activist, lawyer, and author. May has been the Leader of the Green Party of Canada since 2006.

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Éditeur
Dundurn Group Ltd
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1459744020
ISBN 13 
9781459744028
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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