Bittersweet Brexit

The Future of Food, Farming, Land and Labour

Charlie Clutterbuck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2017
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3770-8 (ISBN)

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An optimistic solution to the post-Brexit crisis in Britain's agricultural sector

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*

Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support. Post-Brexit, that support will vanish - to be replaced with a woefully misconceived agricultural export drive that cannot possibly deliver.

Bittersweet Brexit suggests a solution: paying workers decent wages in the agricultural sector could radically transform the nature of farming in Britain. It would improve yields, increase sustainability and ensure greater self-sufficiency at a time when food security is becoming a vital issue.

This scenario provides a progressive, forward-thinking and optimistic future for food and farming in Britain, which, unlike many other industries, is currently being ignored.

Charlie Clutterbuck PhD has three degrees in agricultural sciences. He has worked in many parts of the food chain from plucking turkeys, picking hops, working in kitchens and living on a hill farm. He has advised several major food retailers and was an active member of Unite's Rural and Agricultural workers for many years, as well as an Honorary Fellow in Food Policy at City University London. At present he is on the Boards of Incredible Farm in Todmorden and 'The Larder' in Preston. He has published extensively on food and farming and is the author of Bittersweet Brexit: Land, Labour and Food After Brexit (Pluto, 2017).

List of Photographs, Figures and Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The State We're In

1. All Change

2. Coming Out

3. Moving On

Part II: Society

4. Trade

5. Labour

6. Land

Part III: Farm and Food Science

7. Sustainability

8. Obesity

9. Pesticides

10. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Part IV: The Future

11. Favourite Foods

12. What We Can Do

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	10 b&w cartoons, 2 b&w graphs, 12 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 215 mm
Gewicht	357 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-7453-3770-8 / 0745337708
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-3770-8 / 9780745337708
Zustand	Neuware