Agroecology

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter looks at the industrial food system — its origins and the problems it generates — which casts yet more doubt on the conventional wisdom that industrial agriculture is the best way to …	Dana James	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From The New Normal From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be …	Gary S. Kleppel	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The Politics of Agroecology From: Agroecology View Fernwood Publishing		Miguel A. Altieri; Peter M. Rosset	20	2017	$2.00 Add
From The Principles of Agroecology From: Agroecology View Fernwood Publishing		Miguel A. Altieri; Peter M. Rosset	33	2017	$3.30 Add
The Winter Market Gardener A Successful Grower's Handbook for Year Round Harvests	The Winter Market Gardener is a guide to year-round vegetable production. Based on years of experimentation in techniques, tools, and cultivars, it presents planting, care, and harvesting details …		274		View
From Toward a Sustainable Agriculture From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	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, …	Gary S. Kleppel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From Tragedy of the White Amur From: Overrun View ECW Press	This chapter discusses efforts by the United States government to regulate the transport and breeding of non-native species.	Andrew Reeves	26	2019	$2.60 Add
From Trouble with Fishing From: Overrun View ECW Press	In this chapter, the author travels to Illinois to meet with commercial fishermen who fish the rivers and lakes of the Midwest. Topics discussed include the methods that fishers use to attempt to …	Andrew Reeves	28	2019	$2.80 Add
From Via Chicago From: Overrun View ECW Press	In this chapter, the author travels to Chicago to explore the city’s waterways as another possible vector for Asian carp populations to access the Great Lakes	Andrew Reeves	33	2019	$3.30 Add
From Where Does Agroecological Food Come From From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter begins by considering food produced by the industrial food system that has been called “food from nowhere”. In contrast, agroecological food comes from “somewhere” — it is …	Dana James	38	2021	$3.80 Add