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Crisis & opportunity sustainability in American agriculture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikerd, John E.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Series:Our sustainable future.
Subjects:
Sustainable agriculture > United States.
Alternative agriculture > Economic aspects > United States.
Farms, Small > United States.
Agriculture > Forecasting. > United States
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agronomy > Crop Science. > Agriculture
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agronomy > General. > Agriculture
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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