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In defense of farmers : the future of agriculture in the shadow of corporate power /
"Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial a...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Our sustainable future.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance
- Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Donald D. Stull
- Industrial chicken meat and the good life in Bolivia / Sarah Kollnig
- Automating agriculture: precision technologies, agbots, and the fourth Industrial Revolution / Jane W. Gibson
- Water to wine: industrial agriculure and groundwater regulation in California / Casey Walsh
- The challenges of climate change for West Texas wheat farmers / Sara E. Alexander
- From partner to consumer: the changing role of farmers in the public agricultural research process on the Canadian prairies / Katherine Strand
- Transmission of the Brazil model of industrial soybean production: a comparative study of two migrant farming communities in the Brazilian cerrado / Andrew Ofstehage
- The price of success: population decline and community transformation in western Kansas / Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray
- An alternative future for food and farming / John Ikerd.