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RECOMMENDED READING
This page includes a first section on genetic engineering, a second section on sustainable agriculture, and a third section listing magazines.
EU and Irish government documents may be found in our resources section.
To submit a listing for this page, please email the details (including title, author, publisher, publication date and ISBN number) to us at reading@gmfreeireland.org
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ON GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Against The Grain: The Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture
The book that Monsanto tried to prevent being published.
By Tim Lang (Foreword), Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey.
(UK)ISBN 1853836575
UK edition published by Earthscan (August 1999).
Is biotechnology the world's new risk-free breadbasket? In this impassioned
report, the authors reveal that the quest for corporate profits has ridden
roughshod over questions of public health, freedom of choice and ecological
stability. From environmental issues of biodiversity and increasing use of
chemicals to health concerns about eating genetically modified food, Against the
Grain provides a comprehensive and devastating picture of biotechnology and
food.
What you eat is changing: agribusiness giant Monsanto is genetically
engineering corn, beets, rice, and soybeans to make the crops resistant to
Monsanto's own herbicide, Roundup. This means that more herbicide goes on the food you
eat. By the year 2000, Monsanto plans to have locked up 100% of the U.S.
market in soybeans to incoporate their Roundup Ready technology, while it sprays
over 26 million pounds of herbicide worldwide annually. The human health
consequences of the herbicide are still not completely understood.
The consequences to farmers are becoming increasingly clear. Farmers must
agree not to give seeds to others, or to save any seeds from the crop for
replanting, and to use Roundup Ready herbicide--a Faustian bargain that makes them
dependent on the corporation.
No one reading this book will be left unshaken about the future of our
agriculture system--or about what they eat.
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An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 46.
IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, 2003.
ISBN 2 8317 0671 8 ï www.www.iucn.org/bookstore.
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Biopiracy: the plunder of nature and knowledge
By Vandana Shiva. Green Books, in Association with The Gaia Foundation, 1998.
ISBN 1 85649 993 4 ï www.greenbooks.co.uk.
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GMOs: civil society argues its refusal - the case for a public debate
This excellent pamphlet includes a succinct critique of the outdated reductionist paradigm of genetics used by the pro-GMO lobby, together with other scientific, legal, economic and ethical considerations. Written (in English) by the French Collective for a Citizens' Conference on GMOs (General Coordinator: Frédéric Prat, GEYSER. Published by InfOGM, tel + 33 1 48 51 65 40 ï www.infogm.org.
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Guide to Campaigning for GM-free Zones in Europe
Published by Friends of the Earth Europe ï Download here (804kb PDF file).
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Killer Foods: When Scientists Manipulate Genes, Better Is Not Always Best
By Michael W. Fox. (USA) ISBN 1592284477 - UK edition should be published April 2005.
Published by The Lyons Press ( Nov 2004).
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Living with the Fluid Genome
By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. Institute for Science in Society and the Third World Network, 2003. ISBN: 0-9544923-0-7 ï www.i-sis.org.uk.
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Patenting Life? Stop! Is corporate greed forcing us to eat genetically modified food?
By Irish priest Fr. Seán McDonagh. Dominican Publications, Dublin. 2003. ISBN 1-871552-85-0. € 14.99 ï www.dominicanpublications.com.
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Seeds of Deception
Exposing Corporate and Government Lies about the Safety of Genetically Engineered Food. By Jeffrey M. Smith, with a foreword by Michael Meacher. Published by Green Books, UK, 2004`: tel + 44 (0)1 803 863 260 ï www.greenbooks.co.uk
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The Case for a GM-free Sustainable World
Published by the International Science Panel on GM. Download here (804kb PDF file).
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ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, GLOBALISATION AND RELATED ECONOMICS
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A Future for the Land: organic farming from a global perspective
Edited by Philip Conford. A Resurgence Book, published by Green Books, 1992.
ISBN 1 870098 49 8 ï www.greenbooks.co.uk
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Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Based on ISEC founder and director Helena Norberg-Hodge's 23 years of experience in Ladakh, this beautiful book describes traditional Ladakhi culture, and the psychological, social, and environmental changes brought about by modernisation. It also offers insights into what the modern world can learn from traditional cultures. UK edition (Rider Books, revised 2000); paperback, b&w photos, £9.99. US edition (Sierra Club Books, revised edition 2002, 204 pp); paperback, b&w photos, $16.50. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into almost 40 languages ï www.isec.org.uk.
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Bringing the Food Economy Home: local alternatives to global agribusiness
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrified and Steven Gorelick. Zed Books, 2002.
ISBN 1 842772 33 3 ï www.isec.org.uk.
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Bringing The Food Economy Home: The Social, Ecological and Economic Benefits of Local Food
An ISEC report showing that the globalisation of food is not only undermining farmers and damaging the environment, but also posing a real threat to human health, food security, local economies and, ultimately, consumers. By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield and Steven Gorelick. ISEC, 2000; 48 page paperbound report, b&w illustrations; £5.50; US$7.00 ï www.isec.org.uk.
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Cultivating Communities: proceedings from the 14th Organic World Congress
IFOAM/COG, 2002 ï www.ifoam.org
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Fatal Harvest: the tragedy of industrial agriculture.
Edited by Andrew Kimbrell, distributed by Island Press. This book provides an uprecedented view of our current ecologically destructive agricultural system aand a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. Filled with more than 250 insightful and straling photographs, this book gathers more than 40 essays by today's leading thinkers on agriculture wich as Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, David Ehrenfeld, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandan Shiva, Johm Hightower and Garry Needham. Desgigned to be an invaluable aid in the critical battle to reform industrial agriculture, Fatal Harvest will inform and influence the growing public movement of acctivists, farmers, policy makers and consumers wo are aiming to make our food safer for ourselves and our planet. A must-read for every farmer and agricultural policy-maker in Ireland! Distributed by Island Press ï
ISBN 1 559639 41 5 ï www.islandpress.org.
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From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
An analysis of the roots of the environmental, social and economic crises facing modern industrial agriculture, and a review of more sustainable options. By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Peter Goering and John Page. ISEC & Zed Books, 2000; 120 pages, paperback. ISBN 1 870098 74 9. £7.95; US$13.00 ï www.isec.org.uk
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Local Harvest: Delicious Ways to Save the Planet
This fascinating book illustrates the astonishing array of benefits ‚ for people and the environment ‚ that responsible food production and marketing can bring. It also shows that good food costs less when it's local. By Kate de Selencourt, with a foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge. Lawrence and Wishart, 1997; 229 pages, paperback. £11.99 ; US$16.00 ï www.isec.org.uk
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Shifting Direction: From Global Dependence to Local Interdependence
An accounting of the costs of globalisation, and a description of concrete steps that can be taken to shift towards the local. By Helena Norberg-Hodge. Published by ISEC. ISBN: 1 903998 41 7 226 ï www.isec.org.uk
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Short Circuit: strengthening local economics for security in an unstable world
By Richard Douthwaite. Lilliput Press, Dublin, in association with Green Books.
ISBN 1 874675 60 0 ï www.greenbooks.co.uk.
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Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidised
An ISEC study showing how taxpayers' money is used to promote ever larger scale. Using numerous examples and statistics, the report demonstrates that the global economy and its huge transnational corporations are being heavily subsidised at the expense of small, local producers. By Steven Gorelick, with a foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge. ISEC, 1998; 56 pages, paperbound, b&w illustrations. £3.50; US$6.00 ï www.isec.org.uk
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Telling it like it is: 10 years of unsustainable development in Ireland
Edited and published in 1992 by Earth Summit Ireland Ltd. ï www.earthsummit-ireland.org
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The Future of Progress: Reflections on Environment and Development
A collection of essays that challenge the Western notions of progress that dominate the current debate on environment and development. Contributors include Edward Goldsmith, Vandana Shiva, Sigmund Kvaloy, Martin Khor, Nicholas Hildyard, Gary Snyder and Helena Norberg-Hodge. Green Books (revised edition 1995); 254 pages, paperback. £8.95; US$14.50 ï www.isec.org.uk
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The Little Food Book: an explosive account of the food we eat today
By Craig Sams. Alastair Sawday Publishing co. Ltd
ISBN 1 901970 32 9
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The World of Organic Agriculture: statistics and future perspectives 2003
Edited by Minou Yussefi and Helga Willer. IFOAM.
ISBN 3 934 055 22 2 ï www.ifoam.org
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MAGAZINES
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Ecology and Farming
The magazine of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
www.ifoam.org.
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Organic Matters
Ireland's organic magazine ï
www.organicmattersmag.com
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Wild Ireland
Ireland's wildlife and environmental magazine ï
www.wildireland.com
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The Ecologist ï A must-read for breaking news on GM, globalisation, sustainable agriculture and the environment ï
www.theecologist.org
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