Land & Food

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Belongings The Fight For Land and Food Fernwood Publishing	In Belongings, Sally Miller illustrates how food and farm crises result from adherence to the rules of private property. Miller looks at the state of farmland and farmers in Canada and across the …	Sally Miller	205	2016	View
Emergent Agriculture Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy New Society Publishers	Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere …	Gary S. Kleppel	195	2014	View
Farm the City A Toolkit for Setting up a Successful Urban Farm New Society Publishers	Urban farming has the power to change diets, economies, and lives. Yet starting an urban farm can seem daunting with skills and knowledge that extend beyond growing to include marketing, sales, …	Michael Ableman	130	2020	View
Good Crop / Bad Crop Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada Between The Lines	In recent years Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins of their food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well known is that pesticide …	Devlin Kuyek	160	2007	View
Resilient Agriculture Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought and flooding create the most obvious …	Laura Lengnick	370	2015	View
NEW! Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. …	Laura Lengnick	368	2022	View
The Color of Food Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming New Society Publishers	Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands-hands that are usually white. While there’s no doubt the growing trend of …	Natasha Bowens	242	2015	View
NEW! Tiny Engines of Abundance A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression Fernwood Publishing	This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, …	Jim Handy	157	2022	View
From NEW! “Swept Away through Injustice” From: Tiny Engines of Abundance View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 1 introduces the premise of the book, which is to reexamine the idea of progress that we tie to the evolution of industrial agriculture over the last 200 years. Examination of this period …	Jim Handy	8	2022	$0.80 Add
From Brown Girl Farming From: The Color of Food View New Society Publishers	In the introduction, the author discusses her introduction to organic farming, and how the food and farm movement has excluded people of colour.	Natasha Bowens	6	2015	$0.60 Add
From Gravity Suspended From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as …	Alejandro Frid	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Introduction On the Cusp of a Revolution From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Today’s shifting agricultural paradigm is doing much the same thing. It is changing the way we produce food, how and where we get it, and what it does to our health, our pocket books, and …	Gary S. Kleppel	5	2014	$0.50 Add
From Introduction From: Farm the City View New Society Publishers	The introduction indicates that this book is a guide for creating urban farms that produce significant amounts of food while employing people who would most benefit from full time, meaningful …	Michael Ableman	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From Introduction Overview of Belongings From: Belongings View Fernwood Publishing		Sally Miller	20	2016	$2.00 Add
From Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing Climate From: Resilient Agriculture View New Society Publishers	This chapter provides a brief history of agricultural practices and outlines the different crops and livestock that are cultivated in different environments. The chapter goes on to discuss how …	Laura Lengnick	40	2015	$4.00 Add
From Transformation Part I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more.	Devlin Kuyek	11	2007	$1.10 Add