Bittersweet Brexit: The Future of Food, Farming, Land and Labour - Softcover

Clutterbuck, Charlie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745337708 ISBN 13: 9780745337708

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2017

Synopsis

The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was originally designed in 1962 to build an integrated agricultural market through subsidies, the removal of tariffs, and other programs of financial intervention. Though reformed many times over the past five decades, the CAP has been widely criticized for its high cost and uneven distribution of benefits as well as for its environmental and humanitarian impacts.
            But in Britain, in spite of its shortcomings, the CAP did at least afford farmers a degree of financial and structural support. Post-Brexit, that support will vanish, to be replaced by a woefully misconceived agricultural export drive. Bittersweet Brexit dissects the problems of the post-CAP plan and proposes a simple yet impactful solution: paying workers decent wages. A leading expert on agribusiness, Charlie Clutterbuck argues that increasing wages for laborers in the agricultural sector would radically transform the nature of farming in Britain—increasing sustainability, improving yields, and ensuring greater self-sufficiency at a time when food security is gravely imperiled. This timely book calls for a progressive future for food and farming in Britain, and will prove illuminating to students of environmental studies and policy makers alike. 
 

About this title

About the Author:

Charlie Clutterbuck is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London. He has published extensively on food and farming.
 

Review:

'This book is so important ... it challenges us all to take the opportunity Brexit presents to rethink our food systems, rethink our investment in food production and reconnect locally' -- Pam Warhurst, Co-Founder, Incredible Edible Network 'A good red-green dose of food reality, which puts people, ecology and health at the heart of how to reform it' -- Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University, London 'A meticulously researched, thought provoking book, which politicians should act upon to provide a better future for our food and farm workers, especially the young, and rural economies in general' -- Len McCluskey, General Secretary, Unite the Union

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0745337708
• ISBN 13: 9780745337708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288