Wilted : Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520305280
ISBN-13
9780520305281
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 20th, 2019
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Food & society
Ksh 4,500.00
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Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests. In Wilted, Julie Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit’s production system. The particular conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry.
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