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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! The Way of the Peasant From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	The Way of the Peasant begins with the impact of industrial agriculture on peasant farmers in India, before focusing on the resistance to these impacts through the anti-globalization and …	John Restakis	15	2021	$1.50 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
From Transformation Part I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more.	Devlin Kuyek	11	2007	$1.10 Add
From Transforming Agriculture Women Farmers Define a Food Sovereignty Policy for Canada From: Food Sovereignty in Canada View Fernwood Publishing		Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Carla Roppel	21	2010	$2.94 Add
From NEW! Understanding Adaptive Capacity PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	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
From Understanding Exposure From: Resilient Agriculture View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World New Society Publishers	This chapter explores the ways that climate change impacts different regions and different crops, and outlines the effects that environmental changes will have on the highly delicate balance that …	Laura Lengnick	24	2015	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Understanding Exposure PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	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 Sensitivity From: Resilient Agriculture View New Society Publishers	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 NEW! Understanding Sensitivity PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	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 Value-Chain Control Relations of Debt and Dependency From: The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism View Fernwood Publishing	Industrial Value-Chain Agriculture and Transnational Capital Control Grabbing and the Spatio-Temporal Fix Conclusion	Ben M. McKay	15	2020	$1.50 Add
From Vegetables From: Resilient Agriculture View New Society Publishers	This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. …	Laura Lengnick	38	2015	$3.80 Add
From NEW! Vegetables PART 4 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. It …	Laura Lengnick	58	2022	$5.80 Add
From NEW! Waiting For Land From: Agriculture and the Generation Problem View Fernwood Publishing	Topics covered in this chapter include: Modes of intergenerational resource transmission, forms of intergenerational and intragenerational tensions, and the impact of gender, and class on the …	Ben White	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Waking Up to Climate Change PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	The author talks about climate change, her own experiences and activities in the world of climate action and lessons she’s learned, resilience thinking, and hope. She also introduces the …	Laura Lengnick	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Who Wants to Be a Farmer? From: Agriculture and the Generation Problem View Fernwood Publishing	Topics in this chapter explore the future of global agriculture and include: the aspirations of rural youth, rural youth and collective action and what the future holds for smallholder farms.	Ben White	29	2020	$2.90 Add
From Yields From: Peasants and the Art of Farming View Fernwood Publishing		Jan Douwe van der Ploeg	36	2013	$3.96 Add