Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed
through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and
activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones
responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. Who Really Feeds
the World? is a powerful manifesto calling for agricultural justice and
genuine sustainability, drawing upon Shiva's thirty years of research
and accomplishments in the field. Instead of relying on genetic
modification and large-scale monocropping to solve the world's food
crisis, she proposes that we look to agroecology--the knowledge of the
interconnectedness that creates food--as a truly life-giving alternative
to the industrial paradigm. Shiva succinctly and eloquently lays out the
networks of people and processes that feed the world, exploring issues
of diversity, the needs of small famers, the importance of seed saving,
the movement toward localization, and the role of women in producing the
world's food.