Land & Food

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From Grains From: Resilient Agriculture View New Society Publishers	This chapter features case studies of grain growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. These include placing a greater …	Laura Lengnick	36	2015	$3.60 Add
From NEW! Grains PART 4 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter features case studies of grain growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. It features various resilience …	Laura Lengnick	20	2022	$2.00 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 NEW! Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa From: Tiny Engines of Abundance View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 4 examines Guatemala during the mid-20th century, as various governments sought to “modernize” Mayan traditional milpa agriculture, resulting in a genocide directed at Mayan …	Jim Handy	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From Harvest Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 8 explores the future of agriculture, industrial farming and its alternatives, grassroots community organizing and political mobilization, resistance to industrial agriculture, the …	Devlin Kuyek	10	2007	$1.00 Add
From Industrialization Part I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 2 explores new models of agribusiness and industrial farming, genetically engineered plants, Canada’s ‘‘farm family’’ image, the National …	Devlin Kuyek	7	2007	$0.70 Add
From Introduction Overview of Belongings From: Belongings View Fernwood Publishing		Sally Miller	20	2016	$2.00 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 NEW! Introduction–Why Bother From: The Farmer's Office View New Society Publishers	Understand What Makes You Money (and Why) – Invest in Your Business – Plan for Growth – Plan for Slow Periods – Avoid Out-of-Control Debt – Weather Covid-like Pivots …	Julia Shanks	8	2024	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Is Sustainable Agriculture a Resilient Agriculture? PART 2 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter examines the topic of sustainable agriculture, the U.S. food system, food and farming philosophies, and resilience. The chapter draws on real-world case studies.	Laura Lengnick	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom From: Tiny Engines of Abundance View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 3 examines Jamaica in the decades following slave emancipation in the 1830s, when Jamaica was often put forward as exemplifying the calamitous results of a prosperous peasantry. Topics …	Jim Handy	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Kerala: A Return to the Future From: Tiny Engines of Abundance View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 6 examines the Indian state of Kerala, a small state in the southwest of the subcontinent that had been the site of ongoing reforms beginning almost immediately after its formation in …	Jim Handy	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From Land For Profit, Land For Food From: Belongings View Fernwood Publishing		Sally Miller	34	2016	$3.40 Add
From Landing For Change From: Belongings View Fernwood Publishing		Sally Miller	6	2016	$0.60 Add