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Understanding Exposure

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From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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This chapter talks about exposure and dealing with climate change, offering some climate change adaptation concepts that help to clarify options that reduce climate risk and cultivate the climate … 16 $1.60 Add
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Understanding Sensitivity

From: Resilient Agriculture

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This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 30 $3.00 Add
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Adaptive Capacity

From: Resilient Agriculture

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This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. 32 $3.20 Add
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Chapter 3

Marketing

From: Farm the City

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This chapter discusses choices and considerations for marketing produce such as farmers’ markets, on site retail, community supported agriculture (CSA), restaurant sales, direct to retail, … 18 $1.80 Add
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Farm Subsides

From: Emergent Agriculture

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This chapter is primarily concerned with the ways in which farms subsidize us. First, most of the farmers who fall into this category of subsidizers own small to medium-sized farms, and they … 9 $0.90 Add
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Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

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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 … 23 $2.30 Add
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Nation

Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

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Chapter 4 examines the connection between the agriculture, particularly wheat production, and the development of the Canadian nation, the prairie provinces, the genetics of red fife, cross … 20 $2.00 Add
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Preserving Culture and Community

From: The Color of Food

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Portrait 1: Cherokee Seed Bank. Kevin Welch, Center for Cherokee Plants Portrait 2: Sustaining Community. Jenga Mwendo, Backyard Gardeners Network Portrait 3: Acequia Culture. Don Bustos, Santa … 40 $4.00 Add
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The Principles of Private Property Simple Principles, Complex Problems

From: Belongings

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Understanding Sensitivity

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 13 $1.30 Add
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People and Principles

From: Farm the City

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This chapter delves deeper into the staffing an urban farm. For Sole Food Street Farm, it is to create meaningful, healthy full-time jobs for people most in need of them, and this shapes all of … 15 $1.50 Add
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Corporation

Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

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Chapter 5 examines the rise of corporations in agriculture in the 1970’s onward in Canada, The National Biotechnology Strategy 1983, policy reform, neoliberalism, and more. 9 $0.90 Add
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Fierce Farming Women

From: The Color of Food

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Portrait 1: Alabama Strong. Sandra Simone, Huckleberry Hill Farm Portrait 2: American Indian Mothers. Beverly Collins-Hall, American Indian Mother and Three Sisters Farm Portrait 3: Sisters. … 38 $3.80 Add
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Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

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Chapter 5 examines Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, when governments– advised by Western development specialists– sought to “capture” peasant production and boost export … 22 $2.20 Add
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Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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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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Understanding Adaptive Capacity

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The … 14 $1.40 Add