AN EMPTY PLATE, why we are losing the battle for our food system, why it matters, and how we can win it back

214pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2016

Tracy Ledger, researcher in the field of economic development and an agri-food activist, analyses the South African agri-food system and demonstrates how misguided government policy and consumer apathy is entrenching inequality, perpetuating poverty, threatening land reform, and destroying the social fabric.