the rise of the global organic food and farming movement
Matthew Reed.
London ; Washington, DC
Earthscan
2010
(vii, 168 pages)
Social movements --;Saving the soil --;Poisonous elixirs --;Small, beautiful and reorganized, 1960s and 1970s --;The rise of organic food retailing, 1980s --;Fighting the future : against GM crops --;Peak organics?
Investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology, this book analyzes and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. It highlights what is unique about the organic movement.