Sustainable agriculture versus corporate greed

Download or read book Sustainable agriculture versus corporate greed written by Alan Broughton and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, agriculture, on which all human life depends - is under sustained attack by big business. Small farmers are everywhere being forced off the land and replaced by big corporate outfits whose sole aim is profit maximisation. The industrial farming practised by agribusinesses is marked by land degradation and heavy use of insecticides, herbicides and fertilisers. Agribusiness is also a big contributor to global warming. But contrary to myths spread by big business apologists ... family farms are many times more productive and better cared for than large holdings. Author Alan Broughton makes an incisive survey of the ills of neoliberal agriculture and highlights the alternatives. Several articles by Elena Garcia focus specifically on Australia and the battle for an agricultural system not dominated by the giant corporations. This is a primer on what's wrong with corporate profit-centred agriculture and the fight for a people-centred alternative.