Chapter Two: Circles of Growing and Eating: The Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture.

Chapter 2 of the book "Food in Global History," edited by Raymond Grew is presented. It provides an ecological interpretation of food and agriculture from the Neolithic Revolution to industrialization. It also discusses the fundamental social and ecological shift in human relations to the earth entailed by industrial agriculture and presents suggestions of practices which prefigure ways of life and work which might replace food and agriculture at the center of human economy.