Wilted : pathogens, chemicals, and the fragile future of the strawberry industry /
Wilted tells how, in the face of emergent soil pathogens, the California strawberry industry came to rely on the use of highly toxic soil fumigants. Once widely adopted, fumigation reverberated throughout the rest of the production system, in plant breeding, land access, labor practices, marketing a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ;
6. |
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| Summary: | Wilted tells how, in the face of emergent soil pathogens, the California strawberry industry came to rely on the use of highly toxic soil fumigants. Once widely adopted, fumigation reverberated throughout the rest of the production system, in plant breeding, land access, labor practices, marketing and more, bringing tremendous productivity. Yet, the very entanglements of plants, soils, chemicals, climate and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now turned into a set of interlocking threats, especially as social and ecological conditions beyond the industry's control bear down on growers. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520305274 0520305272 9780520305281 0520305280 |