Civic agriculture : reconnecting farm, food, and community /

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"Lyson describes how, in the course of a hundred years, a small-scale, diversified system of farming became an industrialized system of production and also how this industrialized system has gone global. He argues that farming in the United States was modernized by employing the same techniques...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lyson, Thomas A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Medford, Massachusetts : Lebanon, NH : Tufts University Press ; University Press of New England, [2004]
Series:Civil society.
Subjects:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > United States.
Agriculture > Social aspects > United States.
Agriculture, Cooperative > United States.
Community development > United States.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
Agriculture > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Coopératives agricoles > États-Unis.
Développement communautaire > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Production agricole.
Production alimentaire.
Niveau local.
Agriculture, Cooperative
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Agriculture > Social aspects
Community development
Gemeinwesen
Landwirtschaft
Ländliche Entwicklung
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Community agriculture and local food systems
  • From subsistence to production: How American agriculture was made modern
  • Going global: The industrialization and consolication of agriculture and food production in the United States
  • The global supply chain
  • Towarda civic agriculture
  • Civic agriculture and community agriculture development
  • From commodity agriculture to civic agriculture.

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