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Food Security: From Excess to Enough (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459744028)
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xCanadians are failing to balance reasonable food consumption with sufficient and sustainable production.
The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts.
At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste -- householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced.
A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough.
Author: Ralph C. Martin
ISBN-10: 1459744020
ISBN-13: 9781459744028
Publisher: J. Patrick Boyer Book
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts.
At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste -- householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced.
A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough.
Author: Ralph C. Martin
ISBN-10: 1459744020
ISBN-13: 9781459744028
Publisher: J. Patrick Boyer Book
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Ralph C. Martin
xRalph C. Martin is a professor of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, where he also served as the Loblaw Chair in Sustainable Food Production from 2011 to 2016. In 2001, he founded the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada. Ralph lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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