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Exploring the wave of innovation - precision agriculture, alternative proteins, gene editing - catalysed by the integration of digital and genetic technologies, Transforming Agriculture and Foodways by David Goodman is a must-read for all those interested in our changing food systems and its control.Chapter 1 is available free to read until 31 July.
This free chapter presents the theoretical underpinnings of its main concepts and themes, reviews the content of individual chapters, and discusses the continuity of the unsustainable industrial agriculture model against the background of the global climate emergency and the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is the first book in the Food and Society series with Bristol University Press edited by David Goodman and Michael K. Goodman. The series showcases cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on food and society, including forthcoming books on food citizenship, food commensality and radical food geographies.
To read the first title, recommend it to your library or sign up to occasional Human Geography newsletters for a 25% discount on this and all other Bristol University Press and Policy Press titles.
For further information or if you wish to discuss the possibility of submitting a proposal for the book series, contact Mike Goodman as the co-editor of the series at m.k.goodman@reading.ac.uk
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