Against the Grain
how farmers around the globe are transforming agriculture to nourish the world and heal the planet
$44.31
- Paperback
244 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2024
Summary
Against the Grain: Farmers Defying Industrial Agriculture
When famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary—and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.
Farmers in some of the world’s oldest agricultural areas—Africa’s Great Rift Valley, India’s Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Highlands of Central America, and the Great Plains of the U.S.—were toiling year after year, only to find t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781572843400 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1572843403 |
| Author: | Roger Thurow |
| Publisher: | Surrey Books,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Surrey Books,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 244 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 139mm |
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About The Author
Roger Thurow
Roger Thurow is a journalist and author who writes about the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in our world as well as global agriculture and food policy. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal for thirty years. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin WhyHunger book award, as well as two other books on world hunger. He is a recipient of Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. He and his wife Anne live in Auburn, Alabama, where he is a scholar-in-residence at Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute.
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