Transforming food systems: The quest for sustainability

by Dave Watson

Overview

• Sets out the historical context for understanding the current challenges facing food production
• Gives a unique overview of the range of reformist, progressive and radical solutions to reforming the global food system
• Provides a framework for comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of different solutions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786764553
Publisher:	Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Publication date:	06/25/2024
Series:	Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science , #99
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Dave Watson is a leading authority on sustainability issues affecting agriculture. He has taught at the University of Hull, UK as well as managing research programmes for the International Livestock Research Institute, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The global food system

• 1.Emergence of the global food system
• 2.Trouble at t'mill
• 3.Drivers and outcomes of change

Part 2 Competing paradigms of food production

• 4.Neo-productivist food systems
• 5.Reformist food systems
• 6.Progressive food systems
• 7.Radical food systems

Part 3 The golden chalice of sustainability and the evolution of food systems

• 8.The golden chalice of sustainability
• 9.Food system evolution