Crisis & opportunity sustainability in American agriculture /
Ikerd, John E.
Crisis & opportunity sustainability in American agriculture / [electronic resource] : Crisis and opportunity John E. Ikerd - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 - 1 online resource (xi, 325 p.) - Our sustainable future . - Our sustainable future .
Title from ebook title page (viewed Nov. 04, 2009)
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
Mode of access: Internet
9780803217447 (electronic bk.) 0803217447 (electronic bk.)
Sustainable agriculture--United States
Alternative agriculture--Economic aspects--United States
Farms, Small--United States
Agriculture--Forecasting--United States
Crisis & opportunity sustainability in American agriculture / [electronic resource] : Crisis and opportunity John E. Ikerd - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 - 1 online resource (xi, 325 p.) - Our sustainable future . - Our sustainable future .
Title from ebook title page (viewed Nov. 04, 2009)
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
Mode of access: Internet
9780803217447 (electronic bk.) 0803217447 (electronic bk.)
Sustainable agriculture--United States
Alternative agriculture--Economic aspects--United States
Farms, Small--United States
Agriculture--Forecasting--United States