Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum Out of Our Farms
Biodiverse farms offer us more food, better food, higher incomes for farmers and a defense from climate disasters.
The following is an excerpt from Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva (South End Press, 2008).
The industrialized, globalized food system is based on oil. It is under threat because of the inevitability of "peak oil." It is also under threat because it is more vulnerable than traditional agriculture to climate change, to which it has contributed. Industrial agriculture is based on monocultures. ...
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