From the Ground Up : Rethinking Industrial Agriculture (New ed)

Modern industrial agriculture is in crisis. The dream of global abundance promised by chemical and biological technology is becoming a nightmare of health risks, degraded land and ailing communities.

There is mounting public distrust of conventional agricultural practices. "From the Ground Up" explores the fundamental principles which underlie the "growth- at-any-cost" thinking of modern society and highlights some of the most promising alternative ways of producing environmentally healthy food.