Organic Struggle

Organic Struggle
Author: Brian K. Obach
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2015-05-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780262029094

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'Organic Struggle' analyzes the evolution of the sustainable agriculture movement in the United States and evaluates its achievements and shortcomings. It traces the development of organic farming from its roots in the 1940s through its embrace by the 1960s counterculture to its mainstreamacceptance and development into a multi-billion dollar industry.

Organic Resistance

Organic Resistance
Author: Venus Bivar
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781469641195

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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.

Reformed Churches in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice

Reformed Churches in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice
Author: Marry-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel,Robert Vosloo
Publsiher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781920689100

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The various contributions in this informative and exciting volume explore the ambivalent and complex history of Reformed faith during the years 1960 to 1990 in apartheid South Africa. In the process light is shed on the role of Reformed churches in the struggle for justice, freedom and dignity. Parameters are simultaneously provided for defining the public role of Reformed faith in contemporary South Africa in the context of Africanisation and globalisation ...ÿ Prof. Nico Koopman, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University

Seeds Science and Struggle

Seeds  Science  and Struggle
Author: Abby Kinchy
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-07-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780262517744

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An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront “science-based” regulation of genetically engineered crops. Genetic engineering has a wide range of cultural, economic, and ethical implications, yet it has become almost an article of faith that regulatory decisions about biotechnology be based only on evidence of specific quantifiable risks; to consider anything else is said to “politicize” regulation. In this study of social protest against genetically engineered food, Abby Kinchy turns the conventional argument on its head. Rather than consider politicization of the regulatory system, she takes a close look at the scientization of public debate about the “contamination” of crops resulting from pollen drift and seed mixing. Advocates of alternative agriculture confront the scientization of this debate by calling on international experts, carrying out their own research, questioning regulatory science in court, building alternative markets, and demanding that their governments consider the social and economic impacts of the new technologies. Kinchy focuses on social conflicts over canola in Canada and maize in Mexico, drawing out their linkages to the global food system and international environmental governance. The book ultimately demonstrates the shortcomings of dominant models of scientific risk governance, which marginalize alternative visions of rural livelihoods and sustainable food production.

Venezuela the Present as Struggle

Venezuela  the Present as Struggle
Author: Cira Pascual Marquina,Chris Gilbert
Publsiher: Monthly Review Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781583678640

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Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movement Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chavez. With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and government, coup attempts, hyperinflation, U.S. sanctions, and massive immigration. What is less known, however, is the story of what the Venezuelan people – especially the Chavista masses – do and think in these times of social emergency. Denying us their stories comes at a high price to people everywhere, because the Chavista bases are the real motors of the Bolivarian revolution. This revolutionary grassroots movement still aspires to the communal path to socialism that Chavez refined in his last years. Venezuela, the Present as Struggle is an eloquent testament to their lives. Comprised of a series of compelling interviews conducted by Cira Pascual Marquina, professor at the Bolivarian University, and contextualized by author Chris Gilbert, the book seeks to open a window on grassroots Chavismo itself in the wake of Chavez’s death. Feminist and housing activists, communards, organic intellectuals, and campesinos from around the country speak up in their own voices, defending the socialist project and pointing to what they see as revolutionary solutions to Venezuela’s current crisis. If the Venezuelan government has shown an impressive capacity to resist imperialism, it is the Chavista grassroots movement, as this book shows, that actually defends socialism as the only coherent project of national liberation.

An Essay on Malaria and Its Consequences

An Essay on Malaria and Its Consequences
Author: Robert Lindsay
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1895
Genre: Malaria
ISBN: UCBK:C049727826

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 898
Release: 1891
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN: NYPL:33433082033253

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The Encyclop dia Britannica

The Encyclop  dia Britannica
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1898
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN: CORNELL:31924092498827

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