Crisis & opportunity [electronic resource] : sustainability in American agriculture / John E. Ikerd
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TextSeries: Our sustainable futurePublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008Description: 1 online resource (xi, 325 p.)ISBN: - 9780803217447 (electronic bk.)
- 0803217447 (electronic bk.)
- Crisis and opportunity
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UMPLIB GAMBANG | S494.5.S86 I34 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 0000057045 |
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