- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 325 p.)
- Series Statement
- Our sustainable future
- Uniform Title
- Crisis & opportunity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Crisis & opportunity (Online)
- Crisis and opportunity
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2007036542
- OCLC
- ssj0000132453
- Author
Ikerd, John E.
- Title
Crisis & opportunity [electronic resource] : 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).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Sudoc No.
U5001 T312 .0020 -2008 nbdocs