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Food security : from excess to enough / Ralph C. Martin ; foreword by Elizabeth May.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Ralph C. (Ralph Cameron), 1953- author.
- Series:
- Point of view (Dundurn Press)
- Point of view
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food consumption--Canada.
- Food consumption.
- Food supply--Canada.
- Food supply.
- Food security--Canada.
- Food security.
- Agricultural industries--Canada.
- Agricultural industries.
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Canada.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Canadians 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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "A J. Patrick Boyer book."
- "Editor: Dominic Farrell"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-208)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4597-4404-7
- OCLC:
- 1109956811
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