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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Fresh Cities From: A Matter of Taste View Collection: The Future of Food: How Small Farms are Responding to Climate Change and Corporate Agriculture Coach House Books	In this chapter, Tucker discusses farmers markets and chain grocery stores in a larger discussion of how the price of food dictates moral and ethical choices. This continues into understanding …	Rebecca Tucker	27	2018	$2.70 Add
From Good Food From: A Matter of Taste View Coach House Books		Rebecca Tucker	30	2018	$3.00 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 Harvesting Silicon Valley From: A Matter of Taste View Coach House Books	In this chapter, there is a discussion around the introduction of technology into the food industry. Tucker addresses concerns such as food security and food waste, and the new idea of technology …	Rebecca Tucker	14	2018	$1.40 Add
From Introduction, Consider the Dunkaroo From: A Matter of Taste View Coach House Books	In this chapter, Tucker begins with a discussion on the association of moral good and bad in relation to food habits. This leads into what constitutes good or bad food, and stresses four …	Rebecca Tucker	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Introduction: the Martian Singularity From: Dinner on Mars View ECW Press	The Introduction reflects on the origins of this book as a thought experiment of what life would look like on Mars. Discussing topics including the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, revolutionary …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	14	2022	$1.40 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 Kill Your Idylls From: A Matter of Taste View Coach House Books	In this chapter, the concept of foodie elitism is debated alongside a discussion of precision farming. Tucker identifies the complexity of introducing new technologies onto the old concept of a …	Rebecca Tucker	36	2018	$3.60 Add
From NEW! Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment From: Tiny Engines of Abundance View Fernwood Publishing	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 Part 1 From: The Winter Market Gardener View New Society Publishers	Part 1 includes the following chapters: Foreword – Introduction: Yes, We Can Grow Vegetables Year Round…and Why We Should – The Knowledge and Skills of Northen Growers – …	Catherine Sylvestre; Jean-Martin Fortier	60	2023	$6.00 Add
From Recounting the Past, Counting on the Future: Stories of the NFU From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter sets the stage, explaining the history and role of the National Farmers Union in Canada, as well as how the book is structured.	Nettie Wiebe	15	2019	$1.50 Add
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 NEW! The Arrival of Agriculture From: Humans View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the advent of agricultural societies and sedentary lifestyles, it inspects what effect these developments had on the egalitarian values of their foraging ancestors …	Alvin Finkel	36	2024	$3.60 Add
From The Protagonists From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter is meant to introduce the farmer members of the National Farmers Union who share their key struggles, gathered together by topic.	Annette Aurélie Desmarais	18	2019	$1.80 Add
NEW! Tiny Engines of Abundance A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression	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, …		157		View