Crisis & opportunity sustainability in American agriculture - Ikerd, John E. (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture -- Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture -- Corporate agriculture and family farms -- The corporatization of America -- Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming -- Farming in harmony with nature and society -- Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming -- Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture? -- Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability -- Economics of sustainable farming -- The renaissance of rural America -- Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture -- Survival strategies for small farms -- Marketing in the niches for sustainability -- Local organic farms save farmland and communities -- The triple bottom line of farming in the future -- The real costs of globalization -- Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability -- The new American food system -- American agriculture after fossil energy.
Title from ebook title page (viewed Nov. 04, 2009).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325).
Keywords: Sustainable agriculture -- United States; Alternative agriculture -- Economic aspects -- United States; Farms, Small -- United States; Agriculture -- United States -- Forecasting; Electronic books