Crisis & opportunity [ sustainability in American agriculture

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikerd, John E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press , c2008
Series:Our sustainable future
Subjects:
Online Access:NetLibrary

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505 0 |a 1. Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture -- 2. Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture -- 3. Corporate agriculture and family farms -- 4. The corporatization of America -- 5. Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming -- 6. Farming in harmony with nature and society -- 7. Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming -- 8. Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture? -- 9. Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability -- 10. Economics of sustainable farming -- 11. The renaissance of rural America -- 12. Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture -- 13. Survival strategies for small farms -- 14. Marketing in the niches for sustainability -- 15. Local organic farms save farmland and communities -- 16. The triple bottom line of farming in the future -- 17. The real costs of globalization -- 18. Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability -- 19. The new American food system -- 20. American agriculture after fossil energy 
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