ABSTRACT
This book, the last installment in a three-book series, aims to help transform agriculture worldwide. Its proposals, revolving around the need to adopt a “deep agroecology”, have three elements – legal, institutional, and cultural. It emphasizes the third of these elements most strenuously by introducing a new instrument to provide insights for our own day in addressing the climate crisis and the agriculture crisis (discussed in Chapter 2): the Homeric epics. Granted, certain aspects of the social setting of the Iliad and the Odyssey – patriarchy, monarchy, and slavery, for instance – ring hollow in most societies today. We can reject those while drawing from other values that are worthy of our special attention and revival for addressing challenges that lie ahead.
