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The agricultural dilemma : how not to feed the world / Glenn Davis Stone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stone, Glenn Davis, author.
- Series:
- Earthscan food and agriculture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Alternative agriculture.
- Agricultural ecology.
- Agricultural administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Other Title:
- How not to feed the world
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- Biography/History:
- Glenn Davis Stone is an anthropologist and internationally recognized authority on the history, politics, and ecology of agriculture and food production. He has conducted ethnographic research in Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and Appalachia (US); archaeological research in the Midwestern and Southwestern US; and work in an agricultural biotechnology lab. He has published over 80 academic articles (one of which won the Gordon Willey Prize) and one previous book, and has been awarded fellowships from the School of Advanced Research, the National Endowment for Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1.
- Three agricultures
- Chapter 2.
- Population Malthus
- Chapter 3.
- Industrial agriculture
- Chapter 4.
- Fertilizer and the "natural grounds"
- Chapter 5.
- Heroes of the harvest
- Chapter 6.
- the Green Revolution and industrializing developing world farms
- Chapter 7.
- The third agriculture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stone, Glenn Davis. Agricultural dilemma
- ISBN:
- 9781003286257
- 1003286259
- 9781000609745
- 100060974X
- 9781000609707
- 1000609707
- Publisher Number:
- 99991524242
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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