Social movements -- Saving the soil -- Poisonous elixirs -- Small, beautiful and reorganized, 1960s and 1970s -- The rise of organic food retailing, 1980s -- Fighting the future : against GM crops -- Peak organics?
Summary
This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyses and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930s, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century, the author traces the rise to prominence of the movement. As well as providing a historical account, the
