Con carenze, prezzi volatili e quasi un miliardo di persone affamate, il mondo ha un problema alimentare, o pensa di averlo. Agricoltori, produttori, supermercati e consumatori in Nord America ed Europa scartano fino a metà del loro cibo, abbastanza per sfamare tutti gli affamati del mondo almeno tre volte. Le foreste vengono distrutte e quasi un decimo delle emissioni di gas serra dell'Occidente viene rilasciato coltivando cibo che non verrà mai mangiato. Mentre le nazioni ricche buttano via il cibo per negligenza, nei paesi in via di sviluppo i raccolti marciscono perché gli agricoltori non hanno i mezzi per lavorarli, immagazzinarli e trasportarli al mercato. Ma potrebbero esserci rimedi sorprendentemente indolori per quello che è diventato uno dei problemi ambientali e sociali più urgenti al mondo. Viaggiando dallo Yorkshire alla Cina, dal Pakistan al Giappone e presentandoci maiali da foraggiamento, coltivatori di patate, freegan e direttori dell'industria alimentare, Stuart incontra esempi grotteschi di dissolutezza, ma anche innovazioni stimolanti e modi per sfruttare al meglio ciò che abbiamo. Combinando indagini in prima linea con nuovi dati sorprendenti, Waste mostra come il nostro stile di vita attuale abbia creato una crisi alimentare globale e cosa possiamo fare per risolverla.
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Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution, 'a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas' (Daily Telegraph), was published in 2006. He lives in the UK.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram Stuart's Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it. With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does. Yet farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food - enough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. 'Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill . read it and weep' The Sun 'Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge' Sunday Telegraph 'An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study' Scotland on Sunday Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution, was published in 2006. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR001444142
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