Family Farming: Challenges and Opportunities
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Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789385502262
Length
x+542p., Illustrations; Tables; Figures; 25cm.
Subjects
The problems accumulated due to more than a century of factory farming are aggravated by significant simultaneous and inter-related global phenomena. These include persistent global financial crises, volatility of food prices, widespread social unrest, and growing certainty that the impacts of climate change (such as water shortages, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, desertification, and depletion of ecosystems) are coming sooner than previously expected. ...
