Agriculture

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Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing Climate

Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing Climate

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter provides a brief history of agricultural practices and outlines the different crops and livestock that are cultivated in different environments. The chapter goes on to discuss how … 40 $4.00 Add
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“Swept Away through Injustice”
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“Swept Away through Injustice”

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

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 … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Agrarian Question Today

The Agrarian Question Today

From: Critical Development Studies: An Introduction

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The Corporate Food Regime

The Corporate Food Regime

From: Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

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The Food Regime and Value Relations

The Food Regime and Value Relations

Which Values?

From: Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

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The Food Regime Project

The Food Regime Project

From: Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

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The Generational Dimension in Agrarian Change
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The Generational Dimension in Agrarian Change

From: Agriculture and the Generation Problem

Topics covered in this chapter include: Frameworks and guiding concepts for understanding the generational dimension in agrarian change, and whether there is a crisis of social reproduction … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Light and Dark of These Times
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The Light and Dark of These Times

PART 3

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

The author reflects on the light and dark of these times as she writes in the summer of 2021. Topics include: the sustainable food movement, Indigenous foodways, the good food movement, … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Limits of Farmer-Control

The Limits of Farmer-Control

Food Sovereignty and Conflicts over the Canadian Wheat Board

From: Food Sovereignty in Canada

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The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

Lessons from Bolivia

Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agro-food system, … 172 View
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The Position of Peasant Agriculture in the Wider Context

The Position of Peasant Agriculture in the Wider Context

From: Peasants and the Art of Farming

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The Qualities and Behaviours of Resilient Systems
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The Qualities and Behaviours of Resilient Systems

PART 2

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter explores the qualities and behaviours of resilient systems, which come in different shapes, kinds, and sizes. The author explores qualities that cultivate resilience such as … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Rules of Resilience
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The Rules of Resilience

PART 2

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter explores rules of resilience, which are: to Cultivate diverse networks of reciprocal relationship, to Cultivate regional self-reliance, and to Cultivate the accumulation of … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Soy Complex in Latin America

The Soy Complex in Latin America

From: The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

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 Two Main Balances Identified by Chayanov

The Two Main Balances Identified by Chayanov

From: Peasants and the Art of Farming

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The Way Forward
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The Way Forward

PART 3

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter muses on the way forward from here for our food system, looking to social-ecological resilience thinking, which offers new concepts, a new language and an effective framework for … 8 $0.80 Add