Food and the city : urban agriculture and the new food revolution / Jennifer Cockrall-King.
Discusses how urban agriculture can help revolutionize the environmentally unsustainable modern food industry, providing evidence of thriving urban farms within "food deserts" and describing the global movement towards alternative food production.
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst, N.Y. :
Prometheus Books,
2012.
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| Physical Description: | 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
Discusses how urban agriculture can help revolutionize the environmentally unsustainable modern food industry, providing evidence of thriving urban farms within "food deserts" and describing the global movement towards alternative food production. |
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| Call Number: | S494.5.U72 C63 2012 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781616144586 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1616144580 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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