Refashioning Nature Food, Ecology, and Culture - Goodman, David ; Michael Redclift ; M. R. Redclift

Refashioning Nature Food, Ecology, and Culture by Goodman, David ; Michael Redclift ; M. R. Redclift

Format: Paperback

Published by Routledge, 1991

An analysis of the apparently opposed imperatives of political economy and sustainability. The authors argue that the present means of food production do not satisfy the demands of North and South, resulting rather in food shortages and surplus and environmental destruction. We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household. They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food shortages, poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.

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