Modern agriculture is the largest single contributor to global greenhouse gas production, deforestation and water consumption. Biodiversity, climate change, energy, soil degradation and water scarcity are critical issues and a strong and growing consumer contingent prefers to purchase organically grown and unprocessed food, while increasingly strident social activists expect products to be ethically, responsibly and sustainably produced.
Like fair trade cocoa and shade grown cöee, wine must, sooner or later, meet these powerful demands and as a whole it has a lot more work to do.
In The Business of Sustainable Wine, Sandra Taylor öers a new view of how the industry can be an important actor in sustainable agriculture, getting ahead of coming demands for a more responsible approach to our common future, and she provides a unique insight for the consumer on what to look for on the supermarket shelves to verify what counts as sustainable and what doesn’t.
Taylor describes and analyzes trends in sustainability in wine regions around the world and shares important insight into the complicated world of agricultural sustainability, what it is for a wine to be a sustainable food product and how best to communicate these sustainable attributes to wine consumers. Drawing on case studies from a multitude of commodity industries, she gives producers tools and frameworks for how to go about integrating sustainability into their winegrowing and marketing, and retailers’ procurement managers will learn how to assess sustainable attributes of wines on öer.
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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978-1-935879-30-5 (9781935879305)
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Growing up I hated reading. I went through school with a learning disability where the written word was confusing and difficult for me to comprehend. It wasn't until I was sitting in the back of my son's third-grade class listening to his teacher read that I found myself enthralled in a book. Later I asked her what she was reading; she went to the library and checked me out a copy of the book. I told her I hated reading and never read but she challenged me to read. "Just read the first chapter and if you don't like it we will find you something you do like. Reading should be enjoyable." I did read that book and several thousand after it. Having a disability had stolen the joy of literature from me, but with the advice of a third-grade teacher, I finally found the light. My hope for my readers is that my stories are able to take you away from the mundane everyday struggle and for a short time whisk you to faraway places where the only hindrance is how far your imagination can take you.
