Inclusive Responsibility
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    • Introduction
    • 1: Setting innovation free in agriculture
    • 2: Agriculture planted the seeds of alienation from nature
    • 3: Political-economy of the global food and agriculture system
    • 4: Neo-colonialism and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: A gendered analysis of the development consequences for Africa
    • 5: The myth of a food crisis
    • 6: Animal Ethics as Critique of Animal Agriculture, Environmentalism, Foodieism, Locavorism, and Clean Meat
    • 7: A food system fit for the future
    • 8: Why change the way we grow, process and consume our food?
    • 9: Two paradigms of science – and two models of science-based agriculture
    • 10: Paradigms of Agriculture
    • 11: Soil health and the revolutionary potential of Conservation Agriculture
    • 12: Climate change adaptability and mitigation in Conservation Agriculture
    • 13: Will gene-edited and other GM crops fail sustainable food systems?
    • 14: Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and heterogeneous seeds
    • 15: Healthy diets as a guide to responsible food systems
    • 16: Knowledge systems for inclusively responsible food and agriculture
    • 17: Social movements in the transformation of food and agriculture systems
    • 18: Alternatives to the global food regime: Steps towards system transformation
    • 19: Co-creating responsible food and agriculture systems
    • 20: Towards inclusive responsibility
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Review by Robert Brinkman, former Director of Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

In 1898, Alfred Russell Wallace published ‘The wonderful century’, describing the increasing wealth of the rich and the increasing numbers of poor people  remaining in misery, and ‘…during the whole century, –applying small plasters to each social ulcer as...

Review by Dr Theodore Friedrich, former Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Resident Representative in Bolivia and Cuba

The book is a holistic review of our current food and agriculture systems, discussing the origins, the actual problems, and approaches towards a badly needed sustainability of this issue which is determinant for the survival of humans on our planet. In 20 chapters,...

Review by Dr Rachid Mrabet, Research Director at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, Morocco)

This unique and outstanding book is treasure trove of knowledge and discusses the ways and urgency of changing to and implementing new paradigms related to recovery, resilience, and rebuilding food systems to tackle new as well emerging land challenges and elevated...

Review by James O’Donovan for The Vegan Society and Vegan Sustainability Magazine

The book highlights the urgent need to ‘rethink’ the food and agriculture system and highlights ‘new ways forward’, including alternative paradigms of agriculture, human nutrition and political economy that are more ethical, sustainable and just.  Contributors...

Review by Dr Chris Johansen, Consultant in Agricultural Research and Development, Australia

This book addresses the evolution of global agriculture, and consequent supply and consumption of food. It assembles the thoughts of a range of renowned thinkers and activists in this sphere, pointing out the ultimate unsustainability of the predominant pathways...

Review by David Dent, published in. the International Journal of Environmental Studies

It may be surprising to see agriculture being held responsible for many of the perils that mankind has brought upon itself and the planet. The editors’ aim is to reassess and reimagine the food system. In their own words, this requires ‘uncovering the historical,...
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