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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!
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!
Content Warnings
Minor: Suicide
Minor content warning considering she includes suicidal rates for farmers
Ecofeminism by Maria Mies
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
This book is an overall well rounded explanation of the subsistence perspective within the Ecofeminist movement. Both arthurs throughly articulate informative and inspiring insights on the aggressive, exploitative, ecologically destructive technology created by the commodity producing, growth oriented capitalist/socialist industrial system. Although it is a relatively slow read, topics range from the effects of the Chernobyl incident to the trials of witch hunting and how each perpetuate a militarization mentality against both women and nature.
I would suggest remembering that this is an older book. Some topics that include IVF, gender, and abortions are lacking a lense that the PC culture of this millennia has widened over the years. Although with this being said, if you can understand the time period in which this was written, a lot of information still holds true to this day.
I would suggest remembering that this is an older book. Some topics that include IVF, gender, and abortions are lacking a lense that the PC culture of this millennia has widened over the years. Although with this being said, if you can understand the time period in which this was written, a lot of information still holds true to this day.
If you enjoy learning about the misleadings of US history, the wrong doings of our colonization, rebuilding ecological cycles, or regeneration, then this is the book for you. I would go as far to say that if you are even slightly interested in feminism and/or helping our planet, then add this to your list of To Reads, it’s worth the push and you will end this book with a new perspective on several topics.
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