Crisis & opportunity: sustainability in American agriculture
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikerd, John E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln Univ of Nebraska Press 2008
Series:Our sustainable future
Subjects:
Item Description: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
Physical Description:xi, 325 p. 22 cm

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