Crisis & opportunity sustainability in American agriculture
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Lincoln
Univ of Nebraska Press
2008
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| Schriftenreihe: | Our sustainable future
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325) Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture -- Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture -- Corporate agriculture and family farms -- The corporatization of America -- Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming -- Farming in harmony with nature and society -- Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming -- Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture? -- Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability -- Economics of sustainable farming -- The renaissance of rural America -- Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture -- Survival strategies for small farms -- Marketing in the niches for sustainability -- Local organic farms save farmland and communities -- The triple bottom line of farming in the future -- The real costs of globalization -- Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability -- The new American food system -- American agriculture after fossil energy |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 325 p. 22 cm |