Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Sustaining Cultivation 503 Moreover, most farmers find themselves trying to live on borrowed time with this borrowed power. So m ...

504 Modern Agricultural Reforms Farming isn’t easy for the members of PFI either. There is still plenty of bucking with the hors ...

Sustaining Cultivation 505 Reserve Program, a government programme for keeping the most erodible land out of row crops. They got ...

506 Modern Agricultural Reforms also likely to be a farmer with a more unitary understanding of his or her self. The more dialog ...

Sustaining Cultivation 507 so that we can survive. But that’s going to have to happen in the next five to ten years, or the oppo ...

508 Modern Agricultural Reforms are increasingly apt to take up pursuits similar to those of their city cousins – factory work, ...

Sustaining Cultivation 509 hardly seems like farming anymore. To repeat the sociologist Paul Lasley’s phrase, agriculture is inc ...

510 Modern Agricultural Reforms In short, agriculture has largely become monologic. It speaks to us, not with us, and that goes ...

Sustaining Cultivation 511 to hunger is not to increase food production in the US. Rather, it lies in reducing inequality here a ...

512 Modern Agricultural Reforms mean when they speak of ‘foodshed’ thinking. The increasingly globalized food system of today en ...

Sustaining Cultivation 513 sourcing of food. PFI instituted a ‘healthy food voucher’ programme that enabled low-income families ...

514 Modern Agricultural Reforms large extent, driven out of our image of farming. And indeed most farms today do not feel remote ...

Sustaining Cultivation 515 long as we engage our differences and take responsibility for response ability, for difference is cre ...

516 Modern Agricultural Reforms research was conducted. Without Donna Bauer and Sue Jarnagin of Practical Farmers of Iowa and th ...

Sustaining Cultivation 517 17 Berry (1990, p145). 18 Figures for 2000, from USDA Economic Research Service (2003). 19 I thank Mi ...

518 Modern Agricultural Reforms Iowa Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2003. Number of Farms, Land in Farm ...

Index Compiled by INDEXING SPECIALISTS (UK) Ltd Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) consortium 340, 345–65 Amazon Basin benchma ...

520 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Australia colonialism 76 hunter-gatherers 23, 34, 42, 44, 46–7, 53, 63, 98 language preserv ...

Index 521 ‘chain’ farms 312 change 8–11 see also agricultural revolutions; transformations; transitions cheap-food monologue 510 ...

522 Sustainable Agriculture and Food field-centred agriculture 404–12 genetic manipulation 416–17 Green Revolution 290–307, 403– ...