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Framing the farm bill : interests, ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014 /

This book is an enlightening look at federal agricultural policy--its workings, its history, and its present state--as well as the effect federal legislation has on farming practices, the environment, and our diet, in a thoroughly readable primer on the politics of food in America. It is the best tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bosso, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What's going on in Kansas
  • The food system : or, why governments don't leave agriculture to the marketplace
  • History is not bunk : how farm bills past shape farm bills present
  • Whatever it takes : farmers, food stamps, and coalitions of convenience
  • "Stop the spending" : budget politics and the "Secret" farm bill
  • Building a pathway to sixty : the Senate moves first
  • We're on the road to nowhere
  • SNAP
  • In conference
  • What just happened here? Finding meaning in the politics of the farm bill.