Land & Food
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! Understanding ExposurePART 1 |
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 … | Laura Lengnick | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
From Understanding SensitivityFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
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 … | Laura Lengnick | 30 | 2015 | $3.00 Add |
From Adaptive CapacityFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
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. | Laura Lengnick | 32 | 2015 | $3.20 Add |
From Chapter 3Marketing From: Farm the City |
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, … | Michael Ableman | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
From Farm SubsidesFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
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 … | Gary S. Kleppel | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
From NEW! Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa |
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 NationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
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 … | Devlin Kuyek | 20 | 2007 | $2.00 Add |
From Preserving Culture and CommunityFrom: The Color of Food |
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 … | Natasha Bowens | 40 | 2015 | $4.00 Add |
From The Principles of Private Property Simple Principles, Complex ProblemsFrom: Belongings |
- | Sally Miller | 45 | 2016 | $4.50 Add |
From NEW! Understanding SensitivityPART 1 |
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 … | Laura Lengnick | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
From Chapter 4People and Principles From: Farm the City |
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 … | Michael Ableman | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
From CorporationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
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. | Devlin Kuyek | 9 | 2007 | $0.90 Add |
From Fierce Farming WomenFrom: The Color of Food |
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. … | Natasha Bowens | 38 | 2015 | $3.80 Add |
From NEW! Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment |
Chapter 5 examines Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, when governments– advised by Western development specialists– sought to “capture” peasant production and boost export … | Jim Handy | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From Toward a Sustainable AgricultureFrom: 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, … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! Understanding Adaptive CapacityPART 1 |
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 … | Laura Lengnick | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |