The New Horizons of U.S. Agriculture
Author | : Robert B. Parrott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Robert B. Parrott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Michael Mayerfeld Bell |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2024-02-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271097906 |
Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United States to embrace sustainable practices? Michael Mayerfeld Bell’s Farming for Us All first tackled this question twenty years ago, providing crucial insight into how the structure of US agriculture created this situation and exploring, by contrast, the practices of farmers who are working together to radically change how they think, learn, and grow. This updated edition of his now-classic work reflects on the lessons learned over the past two decades. Constrained by an oppressive nexus of markets, regulations, subsidies, and technology, farmers find themselves undermining their own economic and social security as well as the security of the land. Bell turns to Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), that state’s largest sustainable-agriculture group. He traces how PFI creates an agriculture that engages others—farmers, researchers, officials, and consumers—in a common conversation about what agriculture could look like. Through dialogue, PFI members crossbreed knowledge, discovering pragmatic solutions to help crops grow in ways that sustain families, communities, societies, economies, and environments. Farming for Us All makes the case that for sustainable farming to flourish, new social relations are as important to cultivate as new crops. This book is necessary—and hopeful—reading for anyone concerned about the present and future of food and farming.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1971* |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Successful farming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : W. Travis Loften |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1967* |
Genre | : Agricultural education |
ISBN | : 9780813410081 |
Author | : J. Pushpesh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9789383455041 |
Author | : Jill L. Caviglia |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Caviglia (economics, Salisbury State University) explores the relationship between land use choices of small-scale farmers and the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. She analyzes why sustainable agriculture has not been more widely adopted in the region and offers policy prescriptions to address this problem. She uses original case studies of farms in the area to estimate the probability of the adoption of sustainable agriculture and, once the adoption decision has been made, the intensity of adoption. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : W. Travis Loften |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Agricultural education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Larry B./Editor Marton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul K. Conkin |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081313868X |
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.