Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
Our food system contributes to climate change, social injustice, and a public health crisis where diet is implicated in one in five deaths. We are told it is the consumers’ fault, but this deflects attention from the policies that created the problems. This book examines them.