Taking local food global. Lots of case studies from around the world, including African nations. ( )

Halweil has written an excellent and informative book. He clearly explains how our current food distribution system works (and where it fails us miserably), and describes a myriad creative, functioning solutions to problems stemming from our current food-growing and -distribution systems that we may not even have recognized as being connected to the agribusiness model. The main thing about this book was that many of the examples he gives are simple approaches, quite possible on the small and local scale--and in fact work best that way. It is a hope-filled book. I can't recommend it highly enough. We all eat, and this book makes it clear what the ramifications are of how and what we eat, and just how much power to improve our lives we have. Well-written, thorough, and yet an easy read. An important book. ( )

Well, this book was certainly interesting…but not so engaging for me as coming home to eat. There is a whole lot in this book that I was not aware of before reading it and while I understood that eating locally was preferable…until I read this, I only had a hit of the ideas behind they why of it all. It’s a fairly quick read and I do think Halweil makes a compelling case for necessity of a return to a more local food economies. I think this is probably a book that everyone should read. I give it a solid A. ( )