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The Locavore's Dilemma
Desrochers, Pierre; Shimizu, Hiroko
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Description for The Locavore's Dilemma
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A new generation of food activists has come to believe that"sustainable farming” and"eating local” are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies. But after a thorough review of the evidence, economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and policy analyst Hiroko Shimizu have concluded these claims are mistaken. In The Locavore's Dilemma , they explain the history, science, and economics of food supply to reveal ... Read more
A new generation of food activists has come to believe that"sustainable farming” and"eating local” are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies. But after a thorough review of the evidence, economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and policy analyst Hiroko Shimizu have concluded these claims are mistaken. In The Locavore's Dilemma , they explain the history, science, and economics of food supply to reveal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586489403
SKU
V9781586489403
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About Desrochers, Pierre; Shimizu, Hiroko
Pierre Desrochers is an associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on economic development, globalization, energy, and transportation issues. He was a research fellow at the centre for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. Hiroko Shimizu holds a master's of international public policy from Osaka University. Desrochers and Shimizu have both been research ... Read more
Reviews for The Locavore's Dilemma
from the Foreword by Blake Hurst, president, Missouri Farm Bureau "In large parts of the world, local trumps science, and people suffer as a result... Desrochers and Shimizu take the idea of local food to the back of the barn and beat the holy livin' tar out of it. In a more rational world, their defense of what is so ... Read more