Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
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2. What is wrong with industrial agriculture? Ecological impacts Carbon emissions Biodiversity loss / increased vulnerability to pest damage. Water pollution Soil damage (compaction, salinization) Political/economic impacts Displaces / fails to generate employment Concentration of control of value chain in hands of capital at the expense of producers and consumers.
5. Woodhouse P (2010) Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability. Journal of Agrarian Change 10 (3): 437-453