Rebels for the soil
Subtitle: the rise of the global organic food and farming movement
By: Matthew Reed
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781849776479
Subjects: HEALTH & FITNESS; Safety; Social aspects; Organic farming; Agriculture; Social movements
Description: This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyses and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930s, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century, the author traces the rise to prominence of the movement. As well as providing a historical account, the.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Social movements; title: Saving the soil; title: Poisonous elixirs; title: Small, beautiful and reorganized, 1960s and 1970s; title: The rise of organic food retailing, 1980s; title: Fighting the future : against GM crops; title: Peak organics?