Authors: Italian edition edited by Gianfranco Bologna – Forewords by Carlo Petrini and Andrea Segre
Published: 2011
Publishing House: Worldwatch Institute
ISBN: 978-88-96238-4
Language: Italian and English
“Improved seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, massive mechanization: these were the ingredients of the Green Revolution that, since the postwar period, has enabled millions of people to be fed. Today that model is showing its limits. Nearly one billion people in the world are still malnourished, and agriculture is a major contributor to global warming and climate change, as well as a major cause of biodiversity loss. State of the World presents the solutions that, at all latitudes, are being pioneered and applied to increase crop yields by freeing themselves from fossil fuels, improving food processing and storage, and protecting the environment and local communities. In this scenario, the role of women in agriculture in developing countries is proving decisive and a special focus is devoted to it, while the issue of reducing food waste emerges, a scandal that alone should be enough to make us doubt the goodness of the current system.”
