Frontline Farmers
Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Availability:
Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
Fernwood Publishing
Fernwood Publishing
DRM:
Open - No Protection
Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
2019
2019
ISBN-13:
9781773631752
Description:
<p>Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of Canada’s food systems? Why is this important to those of us who do not farm?</p>
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<em>Frontline Farmers</em> introduces readers to the National Farmers Union (NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our food system. From fighting against transnational corporations that seek to control our food system by imposing genetically modified organisms into our food, to protecting seeds, maintaining orderly marketing, saving the prison farms, keeping the land in the hands of family farmers, farming ecologically and building food sovereignty, the NFU has been front and centre of farm and food activism.</p>
<p>This book collects the voices of NFU members who tell the stories of the key struggles of the progressive farm movement in Canada: fighting to build viable rural communities, protecting the family farm and creating socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Frontline Farmers reveals that the stakes for controlling our food in Canada have never been higher.</p>
<p>The book was made possible with support from the Canada Research Chair Program.</p>
<p>For an updated, corrected list of the protagonists from Frontline Farmers, please <a href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/files/Frontline_Farmers_Text_PROTAGONISTS.pdf">click here.</a>
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<p>
<em>Frontline Farmers</em> introduces readers to the National Farmers Union (NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our food system. From fighting against transnational corporations that seek to control our food system by imposing genetically modified organisms into our food, to protecting seeds, maintaining orderly marketing, saving the prison farms, keeping the land in the hands of family farmers, farming ecologically and building food sovereignty, the NFU has been front and centre of farm and food activism.</p>
<p>This book collects the voices of NFU members who tell the stories of the key struggles of the progressive farm movement in Canada: fighting to build viable rural communities, protecting the family farm and creating socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Frontline Farmers reveals that the stakes for controlling our food in Canada have never been higher.</p>
<p>The book was made possible with support from the Canada Research Chair Program.</p>
<p>For an updated, corrected list of the protagonists from Frontline Farmers, please <a href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/files/Frontline_Farmers_Text_PROTAGONISTS.pdf">click here.</a>
</p>