Sustaining Cultivation 51717 Berry (1990, p145).
18 Figures for 2000, from USDA Economic Research Service (2003).
19 I thank Mike Duffy for this observation.
20 Nord, Andrews and Carlson (2003).
21 Blisard (2001, table 19).
22 Kaufman et al (1997).
23 Organic Trade Association (2003), citing a Natural Marketing Institute 2002 study.
24 Pollan (2001).
25 Allen and Kovach (2000).
26 Dupuis (2000).
27 Kloppenburg, Hendrickson and Stevenson (1996, p41).
28 Lyson (2000, p42).
29 Lyson (2000, p45), and US Department of Agriculture (2002).
30 Several websites, including several USDA websites, attribute this figure to a 1999 USDA study,
but I was not able to locate the original source.
31 In perhaps the most dramatic example of the development of urban agriculture, some neighbour-
hoods in Cuban cities now raise some 30 per cent of their food locally. See Funes et al (2002).
32 The figure of 33 times is from Kahn and McAlister (1997).
33 Friedmann (2003).
34 Ibid.
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