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Title In defense of farmers : the future of agriculture in the shadow of corporate power / edited by Jane W. Gibson and Sara E. Alexander ; foreword by John K. Hansen.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Our sustainable future
Our sustainable future.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 agriculture. Both representations obscure individual farmers, their families, their communities, and the risks they face from unpredictable local, national, and global conditions: fluctuating and often volatile production costs and crop prices; extreme weather exacerbated by climate change; complicated and changing farm policies; new production technologies and practices; water availability; inflation and debt; and rural community decline. Yet the future of industrial agriculture depends fundamentally on farmers' decisions."--Provided by publisher
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Agricultural industries.
Agricultural industries.
Farmers.
Farmers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gibson, Jane W. (Jane Winslow), editor.
Alexander, Sara E., editor.
Other Form: Print version: In defense of farmers. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] 9781496206732 (DLC) 2018047752 (OCoLC)1060177913
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