Alternative Economies

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Sustainable Meat - A Contradiction in Terms?

Sustainable Meat – A Contradiction in Terms?

From: Emergent Agriculture

Among the most complex and contentious issues surrounding the debate about what is sustainable and what is not, is the question of meat. Can it be produced sustainably? Should we eat it? As an … 3 $0.30 Add
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The Consumer in a Changing Food System

The Consumer in a Changing Food System

From: Emergent Agriculture

Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Emergent Agriculture

The Emergent Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

Food production becomes exceptionally sustainable when profitability ceases to be the singular mission of the farm, and becomes instead a part of a “triple bottom line.” As important … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Emergent Market

The Emergent Market

From: Emergent Agriculture

Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Food Co-op Waves

The Food Co-op Waves

From: Grocery Story

This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Slow Money

The Slow Money

From: Emergent Agriculture

Slow Money argues for the diversion of capital from global markets to local markets – to farms, farmers’ markets, and restaurants within one’s own foodshed. Slow Money creates … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Way of the Peasant
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The Way of the Peasant

From: Civilizing the State

The Way of the Peasant begins with the impact of industrial agriculture on peasant farmers in India, before focusing on the resistance to these impacts through the anti-globalization and … 15 $1.50 Add
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Threats to Food Co-ops

Threats to Food Co-ops

From: Grocery Story

The co-opting by grocery chains of co-op values as marketing strategies is described, as well as the challenges of the "cornucopia effect", caused by a dizzying variety of choice. The … 20 $2.00 Add
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Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

Sustainability is a set of principles that focus on three fundamental elements of durable societies. They are: environmental stewardship, economic viability, and ethical behavior. These elements, … 6 $0.60 Add
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Transformation

Transformation

Part I: Roots

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more. 11 $1.10 Add