roots and genes Volume 1

From the first Natufian villages near the Jordan to the transgenic plant laboratories of Monsanto in Saint-Louis in the United States, from the destruction of forests in the Neolithic period to the erosion of the soil today, from the plow to the robots guided by satellite, from the Spanish merinos to Dolly, the first cloned sheep, agriculture has had a significant impact on the history of humanity and contributed to the emergence, then to the blossoming of most civilizations, and sometimes to their decline. Through the history of this sector, it is a whole essential part of the evolution of our societies that opens up to us, with its eminent or less known characters who, from Hesiod to René Dumont, via Virgil and Olivier de Serres, will build this epic that is both technological and social, cultural and ecological, religious and botanical, animal and economic, local and global. Without forgetting all these generations of peasants, struggling laboriously, at all times and in all latitudes, against misery and hunger. What is more, this sector is central to the questions that our society is asking today, regarding its relationship to plants and animals, to food and health, to territories and landscapes. , as to his concerns about the major planetary environmental issues: from global warming to the discovery of water scarcity, from soil pollution to the impoverishment of biodiversity... A wealth of knowledge, written in a lively and dynamic style