A review by sustainablereader98
Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology by Vandana Shiva

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

This book is a distillation of three decades of research and action. The author articulates a call for a global, paradigm, and power shift. She explains how current industrial agriculture practices, shaped by corporate greed, are not sustainable and the negative health implications that result from it. She argues for agroecology, explaining how we can feed ourselves in abundance by focusing on saving seeds, giving back to the soil, nurturing biodiversity, and protecting our small-scale farmers and women. She emphasizes how we must stop impoverishing our beautiful planet and how it’s up to us to sow the seeds of hope for a food system that works for the well-being of the planet and all its people.
The only reason why it’s not 5 stars is because even though I was highly dedicated to this book it was a struggle getting through some of it. She makes the same point in several chapters and discusses the yield percentages a little too much for my liking. If you can gloss over the stats and focus on the meaning behind them then you’ll have no trouble! Highly recommend any of her work!
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