Food Studies & Nutrition

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The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Paradox of Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Soy Complex in Latin America

From: The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

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 Commodification and Concentration Upstream Control and “Flexing” Downstream (Trans-)Latin American Capital, Pools de Siembra and Contract Farming Conclusion 14 $1.40 Add
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The Thin and the Fat

Food Entitlements in the Twenty-First Century

From: Hungry For Change

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Understanding Exposure

PART 1

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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“Drawing Forth the Force that Slumbered in Peasants’ Arms”

The Economist, High Agriculture & Selling Capitalism

From: Food Sovereignty

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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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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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Chapter 3: Small Is Beautiful

PART I: RED HORIZONS

From: Dinner on Mars

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 Chapter 3 explores the possibilities of nanotechnology. Discussing the potential of biotechnology experiments, crops, algae, bacteria, fertilizers, medicines, and the creation of a new and unique … ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Complex Poverty

From: About Canada: Poverty

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Discoveries on the Edge

From: Clean Money Revolution

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 My experience confirmed what can be achieved as a “sprinkle investor” holding a portfolio of small private-equity investments in promising mission-based companies. I love the … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Early Child Development, Food Security and Housing

From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition

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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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Farmland as a New Asset Class

From: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies

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Getting Back to Our Roots – Nathan Lewis and the Veteran’s Sanctuary

From: Field Excercises

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 Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading discusses the … 16 $1.60 Add