Crisis & opportunity
Subtitle: sustainability in American agriculture
By: John E. Ikerd.
Series: Our sustainable future
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780803211421
Subjects: Sustainable agriculture -- United States; Alternative agriculture -- Economic aspects -- United States; Farms, Small -- United States; Agriculture -- United States -- Forecasting
Other titles: Crisis and opportunity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325).
Table of contents: title: Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture; title: Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture; title: Corporate agriculture and family farms; title: The corporatization of America; title: Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming; title: Farming in harmony with nature and society; title: Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming; title: Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture?; title: Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability; title: Economics of sustainable farming; title: The renaissance of rural America; title: Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture; title: Survival strategies for small farms; title: Marketing in the niches for sustainability; title: Local organic farms save farmland and communities; title: The triple bottom line of farming in the future; title: The real costs of globalization; title: Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability; title: The new American food system; title: American agriculture after fossil energy.