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Crisis & opportunity : sustainability in American agriculture
- Title
- Crisis & opportunity : sustainability in American agriculture / John E. Ikerd.
- Author
- Ikerd, John E.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 08-1516 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 325 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Our sustainable future
- Alternative Title
- Crisis and opportunity
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325).
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 08-1516
- ISBN
- 9780803211421 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803211422 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007036542
- OCLC
- 172521658
- Author
- Ikerd, John E.
- Title
- Crisis & opportunity : sustainability in American agriculture / John E. Ikerd.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Series
- Our sustainable future
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325).
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-1516