LEADER 03493nam 22005293a 450 001 9910619452903321 005 20240215190622.0 010 $a1-912186-65-9 024 8 $ahttps://www.doi.org/10.3197/63800040695086.book 035 $a(CKB)5840000000099070 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93918 035 $a(ScCtBLL)bc76c299-acc8-4b5c-a6e6-88b2a2329397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31281621 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31281621 035 $a(EXLCZ)995840000000099070 100 $a20231108i20222022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Age of the Soybean $eAn Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration /$fClaiton Marcio da Silva, Claudio de Majo 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWinwick, Cambs. :$cThe White Horse Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (387 pages) 311 $a1-912186-64-0 330 $a"The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world's most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite the crop's potential as a cheap source of vegetal protein for human consumers, most industrial soybean production has fuelled the global meat industrial complex, as animal feed. Soybean is thus, paradoxically, still a relatively 'invisible' crop to the public at large, although its global yields continue to increase at stupendous rates, lining the pockets of agribusiness and to the detriment of traditional agriculture. The transnational socio-ecological and economic entanglements characterising this versatile legume's global expansion have prompted scholarly attention as researchers around the world have begun to unveil the main historical drivers behind the rise of the soybean in the global food chain. This book aims to expand the analysis, offering the most significant effort so far at an environmental history of soybeans. Interrogating the socioeconomic and ecological transformations determined by (and determining) the rise of soy in international food chains during the Great Acceleration, the volume gathers contributions from an international cast of researchers, working in numerous geographical contexts, from Japan and China, to India, African nations, the Southern Cone of Latin America, Northern Europe and the United States. Soybean farming, breeding, processing and marketing have bound together the histories of these diverse regions and altered beyond recognition their ecological and socio-economic contexts." 606 $aConservation of the environment$2bicssc 606 $aTrees, wildflowers & plants$2bicssc 606 $aHumanities$2bicssc 608 $aHistory.$2fast 610 $aNature 610 $aEnvironmental Conservation & Protection 610 $aPlants 610 $aHistory 615 7$aConservation of the environment 615 7$aTrees, wildflowers & plants 615 7$aHumanities 676 $a633.3/4 702 $ada Silva$b Claiton Marcio 702 $ade Majo$b Claudio 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910619452903321 996 $aThe Age of the Soybean$93023079 997 $aUNINA