Agriculture and agribusiness Books
Cambridge University Press Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World
Book SynopsisThis study describes and explains the revolutionary changes which transformed the agricultural life of the Islamicized world in the four centuries following the early Arab conquests. Professor Watson discusses eighteen crops - from sorghum and rye to the watermelon - which spread through the Near East and North Africa during this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. The chronology of diffusion: 2. Sorghum; 3. Asiatic rice; 4. Hard wheat; 5. Sugar cane; 6. Old World cotton; 7. Sour orange, lemon, lime, shaddock; 8. Banana, plantain; 9. Coconut palm; 10. Watermelon; 11. Spinach; 12. Artichoke; 13. Colocasia; 14. Eggplant; 15. Mango tree; Part II. The pathways of diffusion; 16. The routes; Part III. The mechanics of diffusion: 17. The agents; 18. A medium for diffusion; 19. The pull of demand; 20. Facilitating supply: irrigation; 21. Facilitating supply: land tenure; 22. Facilitating supply: gardens; Part IV. The new plants in the economy: 23. An agricultural revolution?; 24. Agriculture in its context; Part V. Later centuries: 25. Agriculture in retreat.
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Cambridge University Press Agrarian Policy of Russian SR Party From its Origins through the Revolution of 19051907 20 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 20
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Cambridge University Press Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants
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Cambridge University Press Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants
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Cambridge University Press Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of Tropical Farming Systems
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of Tropical Farming Systems
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Cambridge University Press The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline
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Cambridge University Press Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture
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Cambridge University Press Agricultural Science as International Development
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University of Illinois Press The World of Soy
Book SynopsisA lively discussion of soy production and consumptionTrade Review“The World of Soy escorts readers on an unexpected but delightfully fascinating journey through the subject of soy as a food. . . . Recommended.”--Choice"Du Bois, Tan, and Mintz have done an excellent job combining a series of chapters from diverse authors into a seamless read. The World of Soy provides an informative account of a legume equally ancient and modern."--Science“Measured in cash terms, soy (Glycine max) is in some ways the most important crop, and in terms of imports and exports, second only to wheat. The fact that this important book has contributions by seventeen authors reflects more than the circumstances of its origins in a couple of academic conferences; it also shows the vastness of the topic and the large number of disciplines required to make sense of it. . . . [This] exemplary, comprehensive volume shows the way to frame the crucial questions of food studies. “--Times Literary Supplement“The chapters in The World of Soy are remarkably informative and contribute greatly to our understanding of this food that maintains multiple identities and meanings across the world.”--Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition“Knowledge provided in the chapters and the large and fantastic reference set are gems shining for us all.”--Flavor and Fortune“All food-studies theorists and practitioners will find plenty to entice them in the historical and ethnographic chapters, which offer sweeping but detailed evidence-based culinary histories and geographies, plus step-by-step recipes for the transformation of soy into so many cultural products.”--Gastronomica"An important book, with implications for food policy, everyday food choices, and the comparative understanding of dietary change. It is a major contribution to food studies and to the anthropology of food."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"A rich introduction to the varied uses--past, present, and future--of this underappreciated yet ubiquitous foodstuff. Drawing on an astounding variety of backgrounds and disciplines, this volume amply shows why the soybean is the staple ingredient in both traditional and modern cuisines, as well as the most important agricultural commodity in the global food system."--Warren Belasco, author of Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food "This enjoyable work provides readers with an overview of the history of modern as well as traditional soy food products. It also points out roadblocks to improving nutritional standards of populations abroad through the introduction of soybean foods. The World of Soy will be extremely informative to groups such as food companies, chefs, and international agencies seeking to expand the uses of soybeans."--Theodore Hymowitz, emeritus professor of plant genetics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Pedigrees of soybean cultivars released in the United States and Canada "What a marvelous, multifaceted work! As varied as the foodstuffs that derive from the bean itself--pungent fermented miso paste; nutty kinako toasted soy flour; delicate, shirred sheets of yuba soymilk; silken cubes of tofu custard; stinky and sticky natto beans--the essays and studies in The World of Soy provide readers with savory, rich, piquant, tangy, and spicy approaches to understanding and appreciating the global importance of soy."--Elizabeth Andoh, author of Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen "This book is a major contribution to the literature on world crops. An up-to-date review of this vitally important food has long been needed, and The World of Soy fills the need with outstanding success. Particularly detailed and notably valuable are the accounts of currently produced soyfoods and how they are changing with new technology worldwide."--E. N. Anderson, author of Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture "The story of soy encompasses every aspect of food and globalization, and The World of Soy takes us on an illuminating journey from the simple pleasures of home-cooking to the stark realities of mass industrial farming and food processing. This skillfully assembled collection should be at the core of every food studies curriculum."--Richard Wilk, professor and director of the food studies program at Indiana University, author of Home Cooking in the Global VillageTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Significance of Soy 1Sidney W. Mintz, Chee-Beng Tan, and Christine M. Du BoisSection One: Acceptance of Soy in Global and Historical Context 1. Legumes in the History of Human Nutrition 27Lawrence Kaplan 2. Early Uses of Soybean in Chinese History 45H. T. Huang 3. Fermented Beans and Western Taste 56Sidney W. Mintz 4. Genetically Engineered Soy 74Christine M. Du Bois and Ivan Sergio Freire de SousaSection Two: Ethnographic Studies of Soy's Acceptance 5. Tofu and Related Products in Chinese Foodways 99Chee-Beng Tan 6. Tofu Feasts in Sichuan Cuisine 121Jianhua Mao 7. Fermented Soybean Products and Japanese Standard Taste 144Erino Ozeki 8. Fermented Soyfoods in South Korea: The Industrialization of Tradition 161Katarzyna J. Cwiertka and Akiko Moriya 9. Tofu in Vietnamese Life 182Can Van Nguyen 10. Soyfoods in Indonesia 195Myra Sidharta 11. Social Context and Diet: Changing Soy Production and Consumption in the United States 208Christine M. Du Bois 12. Soybeans and Soyfoods in Brazil, with Notes on Argentina: Sketch of an Expanding World Commodity 234Ivan Sergio Freire de Sousa and Rita de Cassia Milagres Teixeira Vieira 13. Soy in Bangladesh: History and Prospects 257Christine M. Du Bois 14. Soybeans and Soybean Products in West Africa: Adoption by Farmers and Adaptation to Foodways 276Donald Z. Osborn Conclusion: Soy's Dominance and Destiny 299Christine M. Du Bois and SIdney W. Mintz Appendix A. Scientific Names for Plants and Edible Fungi 315 Appendix B. More on Tofu in Chengdu 320 Contributors 325 Index 329
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Vintage Canada The Carbon Bubble
Book SynopsisAs the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for more pipelines like Keystone XL across the continent to bring that bitumen to market. Anyone who objects to pipelines and tanker-train traffic, north or south of the US border, is labeled a dreamer, or worse—an environmentalist: someone who puts the health of the planet ahead of the economic survival of their neighbours. In The Carbon Bubble, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how an economic vision that rests on oil is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in the US—where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking&mda
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Harper Business The End of Food
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale The Fate of Food
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak—or better than ever? “In The Fate of Food, Amanda Little takes us on a tour of the future. The journey is scary, exciting, and, ultimately, encouraging.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth ExtinctionClimate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world’s population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades?Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist, spent three years
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Michigan State University Press Transatlantic Rebels Agrarian Radicalism in
Book SynopsisExamines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 onward. What unifies the studies is a shared interest in the ways in which agrarian people in the Atlantic world interacted with each other, transmitted and translated ideas, developed new crops or methods, or formulated critiques of the existing social, economic, and political order.Table of ContentsAgricultural Dynamics of the Columbian Exchange, Susan Sleeper-Smith; Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island in Transatlantic Context: From the Aftermath of the Seven 'Years' War to the 1840s, Rusty Bitterman; The U.S. as a Postcolonial State, 1789-1865, Thomas Summerhill; 'The Yoke of Improvement': Sir John Sinclair, John Young and the Improvement of Scotland's, New and Old, Daniel Samson; Threatening Pardos: Pardo Republicanism in Colombia, 1811-1830, Marixa Lasso; Crossings: Thomas Devyr and the American Fate of British Agrarianisms, John Reeve Huston; "Primitive Christianity" and "Modern Socialism": Thomas W. Woodrow and Agrarian Socialism, David A. Y. O. Chang; Radical Rhetoric, Repressive Rule: Sindicato Power in the Atlixco (Mexico) Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century, Gregory Crider; Seeds of Subversion?: A New World Plant and Agrarian Change in Two Peasant-based Empires, 1500-1999, James McCann; Transatlantic Travails: German Experiment Stations and the Transformation of American Agriculture, Louis Ferieger; Drylands, Dust Bowl, and Agro-Technical Internationalism in Southern Africa, Sarah T. Phillips
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Smithsonian Books Science Ethics and Food Papers and Proceedings of
Book SynopsisBehind a facade of technically complex problems and pervasive misunderstandings or failures of communication, improved global production and distribution of food undeniably looms as one of the greatest challenges we face. In order to develop long-term remedies for the wrenchingly human dilemmas associated with the world's food supply, the issues must be formulated in terms that draw upon a wide range of disciplines and arenas of action. This book is the record of one such cross-fertilization of ideas and strategies, emerging out of an impressive gathering of authorities from diverse fields, which may be instrumental in solving the hunger problem.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Introduction to the US Food System
Book SynopsisA public health approach to the US food system Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today''s US food system, with particular focus on the food system''s interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the core content of the food system and provides evidence-based perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas important to understanding today''s US food system. The book is rich with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and discussion questions. The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center''s educational mission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet, food production, environment, and human health to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to thTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Introduction xvii Acknowledgments xxv About the Editor xxvi Author Affiliations xxvii About the Center for a Livable Future xxxiii Chapter 1 Food Systems 1 Roni A. Neff and Robert S. Lawrence The Food System as a System 2 Focus 1.1. Complex Adaptive Systems 5 Focus 1.2. Food in the Food System 6 Public Health 8 The US Food System: An Overview 9 Perspective 1.1. When Your Boat Rocks, You Want Resilience Not Efficiency 12 Focus 1.3. Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System 14 PART 1 OUTCOMES 23 Chapter 2 Food System Public Health Effects 25 Brent F. Kim and Jennifer L.Wilkins Dietary Health 26 Perspective 2.1. Gut Bacteria, Diets and Inflammation 28 Occupational and Environmental Health 33 Focus 2.1. Pesticides and Children’s Health 35 Focus 2.2. Food System Workers at Risk 39 Food Safety 40 Focus 2.3. Bisphenol-A: A Ubiquitous Food System Contaminant 42 Chapter 3 Ecological Threats to and from Food Systems 51 Molly D. Anderson Status of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services Essential to Food Systems 53 Focus 3.1. Assessing Ecological Integrity of Food Systems 54 Focus 3.2. Farmland Protection 57 Focus 3.3. Virtual Water and Food Systems 60 Processes Through Which Ecological Health isThreatened 64 Moving Toward More Environmentally Sustainable Practices 68 Perspective 3.1. A Farmer’sThoughts on Defining Sustainable Farming 70 Perspective 3.2. Consumer Perceptions of Environmentally Sustainable Foods 73 Chapter 4 The Food System and Health Inequities 79 Roni A. Neff, Anne M. Palmer, Shawn E. McKenzie, and Robert S. Lawrence Health Inequities and Food Systems in the United States 81 Perspective 4.1. Foodies on a Mission 84 Elaborating the Pathways 85 Perspective 4.2. Realizing Justice in Local Food Systems 90 Perspective 4.3. The People Who Touch Your Food 93 Perspective 4.4. Contract Chicken Farming 94 Perspective 4.5. Food, Equity, and Health: Making the Connections in Public Health Practice 97 Chapter 5 Public Health Implications of Household Food Insecurity 107 Mariana Chilton, Amanda Breen, and Jenny Rabinowich Definition, Distribution, and Determinants of Food Insecurity 108 Perspective 5.1. Witnesses to Hunger: Participation byThose Who Know Poverty and Hunger Firsthand 112 Nutrition Assistance Programs 114 Perspective 5.2. The Wrong Path Forward: Restricting Food Choices in SNAP 118 Perspective 5.3. A Defense of Excluding Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value from SNAP 119 Perspective 5.4. The Public Health Case for Universal Free School Meals 121 Focus 5.1. What Do People Do When They Are Worried about Feeding Their Families? 124 Broader Perspectives 125 Chapter 6 Community Food Security 135 Anne M. Palmer,Wei-Ting Chen, and MarkWinne History and Evolution of CFS 137 Focus 6.1. Food Hubs: Supporting Healthy Farms, Healthy People, Healthy Economy 139 Measuring Community Food Security 141 CFS Policies at Multiple Levels 144 How Does CFS Change Happen? 146 Focus 6.2. Case Study: Iowa Food Systems Council, a Second-Generation Food Policy Council 147 CFS and Public Health 148 Challenges for the CFS Field 148 Perspective 6.1. The City That Ended Hunger 150 PART 2 DRIVERS OF THE FOOD SYSTEM 157 Chapter 7 Food System Economics 159 Rebecca Boehm, Sean B. Cash, and Larissa S. Drescher Economics Boiled Down: Models, Optimization, Equilibrium, and Social Optimality 160 Agriculture and Food Production 163 Food Manufacturing and the Food Supply Chain 168 Focus 7.1. Price Transmission in the Distribution System: Retail Responses to Supply Price Changes 170 Food Consumption 171 Focus 7.2. US Farm Subsidies Do Not Make Americans Fat 174 Focus 7.3. Recent Progress in Private Sector Voluntary Initiatives to Promote Healthy Eating 177 Chapter 8 Policies That Shape the US Food System 185 Mark Muller and DavidWallinga Federal Food System Legislation:The Process 189 Focus 8.1. Turning Policy Ideas into Legislative Realities 190 How Alliances Shape Policy 190 Focus 8.2. A Brief Look at Agenda-Setting, Policy Analysis, and Food Systems 192 The Policy-Making Process and the Role of Stakeholders: The Farm Bill as an Example 193 The History of US Food and Agriculture Policy: An Overview 194 Perspective 8.1. Why America’s Food is Still Not Safe 198 Perspective 8.2. Produce Imports 200 The Politics of Food System Policy:The Farm Bill as an Example 203 How PolicyDrives the Future Food System: The Role of Price 204 State and Local Policy 207 Focus 8.3. Preemption and Local Food and Agriculture Policies 208 Chapter 9 Food, Culture, and Society 215 Sarah Chard and Erin G. Roth Culture and Food 217 Perspective 9.1. Beyond White Bread, a Better Society? 217 Foodways and Identity 219 Food As Ritual 221 Focus 9.1. Food and Faith 222 Food, Healing, and Health Beliefs 225 Food and Gender 226 Food, Power, and Politics: Food Movements 228 Perspective 9.2. Zombies, Food Writing, and Agribusiness Apocalypse 229 Implications For Food Systems 232 Chapter 10 Promotional Marketing: A Driver of the Modern Food System 237 Corinna Hawkes What Are Food Marketing and Promotion? 238 Types of Food Promotion 239 Focus 10.1. “Supermarketing” and the Impact on Food Choice 240 Segmentation and Targeting in Food Promotion 242 Focus 10.2. POP! Point-of-Purchase Nutrition Labels Are Everywhere: Who Benefits? 244 Extent of Food Promotion 245 Where Promotional Marketing Fits Into the Modern Food System 246 Dietary Effects of Promotional Marketing 250 Perspective 10.1. Front Groups: Who is Shaping the Conversation about Health and Wellness? 252 Responses From Government and Industry 253 PART 3 FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN: FROM SEED TO SALES 263 Chapter 11 Crop Production and Food Systems 265 Charles A. Francis History of Farming Systems—From Local to Industrial 266 Traditional Systems in the United States 267 Emergence of an Industrial Agriculture 267 Perspective 11.1. The Relevance of Genetically Engineered Crops to Sustainable Agriculture 269 Industrial Crop Farming: An Overview 271 Focus 11.1. The Proliferation of Corn 273 Farms Producing for Local and Regional Markets 274 Perspective 11.2. A Bright Future for Farmers in the “Middle”? 274 Agroecology and Organic Farming 277 Crop Production—Impacts on Environment, Food Security, Public Health, and Society 278 Chapter 12 Food Animal Production 289 Brent F. Kim, Leo Horrigan, David C. Love, and Keeve E. Nachman Focus 12.1. Seafood Harvest and Production 292 Industrialization of Food Animal Production 294 Perspective 12.1. Husbandry and Industry: Animal Agriculture, Animal Welfare, and Human Health 294 Public Health Impacts of IFAP 300 Focus 12.2. A Case Study in Rural Community Exposures: Yakima Valley, Washington 303 Perspective 12.2. Living in Duplin County 304 Global and Ecological Concerns 307 Agroecological Approaches to Food Animal Production 308 Policy and Dietary Change 309 Focus 12.3. The Pew Commission on IFAP: Policy Recommendations and Barriers to Reform 309 Chapter 13 Food Processing and Packaging 317 George A. Cavender Food Processing 318 Perspective 13.1. Food Technology: Equal Partner for a Healthy Future 321 Perspective 13.2. Ten Food Secrets You Need to Know 323 How Do We Process Foods? 324 Focus 13.1. On the History of Freshness 328 Food Packaging 331 Food Processing and Packaging: Challenges 335 Perspective 13.3. Ultra-Processing and a New Classification of Foods 338 Food Processing and the Environment 340 Chapter 14 Food Distribution 345 EdwardW. McLaughlin and Miguel I. Gómez Primary Segments of the Food Distribution System 348 Evolution of US Food Distribution 352 Perspective 14.1. The Impact of Walmart 353 Perspective 14.2. Walmarting the Food Chain 355 Focus 14.1. The Growth of Private Label Products in the US Supermarket Sector 358 System Trends in Consumer Expenditures 361 Focus 14.2. Regional Food Systems 363 Focus 14.3. Local Food Systems 363 The Future of Retail Food Distribution 365 PART 4 FOOD IN COMMUNITIES AND ON TABLES 371 Chapter 15 Food Consumption in the United States 373 Alanna Moshfegh Changing Eating Patterns 376 Focus 15.1. Methods for Assessing Diets of Individuals 377 Focus 15.2. National Dietary Surveys in the United States 378 Perspective 15.1. The Supersizing of America: A Time for Action 381 Meal Patterns—When We Eat 383 What We Eat 387 Focus 15.3. What about the Food That’s Not Eaten? Food Waste in America and Its Ecological Impacts 392 Chapter 16 Nutrition 399 Courtney A. Pinard, Amy L. Yaroch, and Teresa M. Smith Perspective 16.1. Consumer Perspectives 401 What Is Nutrition? 403 Nutrients 101 403 Focus 16.1. The Science behind Food and Addiction and the Potential Impact on the Food System 405 Other Nutrients 411 Other Considerations: Additives and Naturally Occurring Chemicals In Food; Organic Food 416 Perspective 16.2. Reasonable Certainty of No Harm? 416 Public Health Nutrition Approaches 418 Chapter 17 Healthy Food Environments 425 Patricia L. Truant and Roni A. Neff What Is a Food Environment? 426 Focus 17.1. Measuring the Food Environment 429 Equity 431 Perspective 17.1. Connecting Civil Rights to Contemporary Food Justice 434 Homes, Schools, Workplaces 435 Perspective 17.2. Striving for “Food Service for a Sustainable Future” 439 The Built Food Environment 440 Focus 17.2. Is There a Map forThat? Using GIS Maps to Understand Our Food Systems 441 Focus 17.3. Connecting People andTheir Food Systems: Why Gardens Matter 447 Chapter 18 Intervening to Change Eating Patterns: How Can Individuals and Societies Effect Lasting Change throughTheir Eating Patterns? 457 Linden Thayer, Molly DeMarco, Larissa Calancie, Melissa Cunningham Kay, and Alice Ammerman Designing Successful Dietary Change Interventions 460 Focus 18.1. Framing Public Health Messages to Improve Diet: Taking Measures to Avoid Weight Stigma 463 Case Studies 466 Focus 18.2. Meatless Monday: A Simple Idea That Sparked a Movement 467 Focus 18.3. Real Food Challenge 470 Perspective 18.1. Building a Better Food Environment 473 Future Directions For Dietary Change Interventions 477 Glossary 483 Photo Credits 501 Index 511
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Simon & Schuster The Meat Racket
Book SynopsisAn investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industrya shocking, in-depth report every American should read.How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the countrys biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a handful of companies executed an audacious corporate takeover of the nations meat supply.Leonards revealing account shines a light on the inner workings of Tyson Foods, a pioneer of the industrial system that dominates the market. Youll learn how the food industry got to where it is today, and how companies like Tyson have escaped the scrutiny they deserve. Youll discover how these companies are able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. And youll even see ho
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Arcadia Publishing Lenawee County Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Grant County Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Forgotten Maryland Cocktails 15 Historic Recipe
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Arcadia Publishing Florida Oranges
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University Press of New England The Fate of Family Farming
Book SynopsisA penetrating look at the condition of family farming-yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co American Hemp Farmer: Adventures and
Book Synopsis“For anyone interested in hemp cultivation or simply learning more about the newest ‘gold rush’ crop, [American Hemp Farmer] is well worth picking up.” ―Publishers Weekly The inside story of the world’s most fascinating and lucrative crop, from gonzo journalist–turned–hemp farmer Doug Fine. Hemp, the non-psychoactive variant of cannabis (or marijuana), has quietly become the fastest industry ever to generate a billion dollars of annual revenue in America. From hemp seed, to hemp fiber, to the currently ubiquitous cannabinoid oil CBD, this resilient, versatile crop is leading the way toward a new, regenerative global economy that contributes to soil and climate restoration. In American Hemp Farmer, maverick journalist and solar-powered goat herder Doug Fine gets his hands dirty growing his own hemp crop and creating his own hemp products. He shares his adventures and misadventures as an independent, regenerative farmer and entrepreneur, whilst laying out a vision for how hemp can help right the wrongs of twentieth-century agriculture - and how you can be a part of it.Trade ReviewLibrary Journal— “An essential book for the aspiring hemp farmer, there is much to consider here for anyone interested in organic farming, drug policy, and community organizing.”Publishers Weekly— “For anyone interested in hemp cultivation or simply learning more about the newest ‘gold rush’ crop, [American Hemp Farmer] is well worth picking up.” Booklist— “A conversational guide for the horticulture geek interested in cultivating hemp. . . . [Fine’s] text is discursive but also helpfully specific and will soothe and encourage any would-be grower.” “A fantastic piece of Americana that shows the way to a sustainable future.”—David Bronner, CEO, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps“With American Hemp Farmer, Doug Fine shows he is not just our preeminent hemp author, he is one of the most important authors of our time. As I’ve watched him leap between tending goats on his Funky Butte Ranch and hemp fields in Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and who knows where else, it sometimes occurs to me that he might be the most interesting man alive. The resulting book is an absolute must-read.”—Eric Steenstra, executive director, Vote Hemp“After 83 years of prohibition, cannabis’s emergence from the underground has sparked a gold rush that has every farmer, wannabe farmer, and agricultural entrepreneur rushing to stake their claim. With American Hemp Farmer, Doug Fine makes an incredibly well-written case for a regenerative agriculture–based, small- to mid-scale approach to the industry that prioritizes quality of over quantity, and where soil carbon sequestration is a bottom-line goal. Humorous, timely, and important.”—Jeff Carpenter, coauthor of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer“American Hemp Farmer would have been in George Washington’s library. President Washington grew hemp and was a passionate, regenerative agriculturist. Washington sought advice from those that practiced their trade. Doug Fine’s American Hemp Farmer is a scholarly, practical, and impeccably enjoyable work and a must-read for those who cultivate hemp or are interested in leaping in.”—Dean Norton, director of horticulture, Mount Vernon Estate“In his latest, author Doug Fine—a modern day Johnny Hempseed—has painstakingly penned a love letter to the cannabis plant and all those who tend it. Doug details the beneficial and no longer forbidden relationship between cannabis and humanity and how together there is a path to rejuvenate the entire planet. As a state hemp program administrator, I hope every hemp farmer and policymaker reads this book carefully. It details a roadmap for success, for farmers and the planet. And that’s probably because Doug doesn’t just write about hemp, he lives it.”—Cary Giguere, hemp program coordinator, Vermont Agency of Agriculture“As a hempcrete homeowner, I’m proud to keep American Hemp Farmer on my shelf as the must-read book on hemp. Someday we may even see NBA arenas built from hemp. But for now, Doug should be prepared to lose more money at the poker table that sits on the hemp floor of my hemp-paneled card room.”—Don Nelson, two-time NBA Hall of Fame inductee
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Workman Publishing Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition:
Book SynopsisWhether you’re running a farm or interested in keeping a few backyard birds, Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry covers everything you need to know to successfully raise your own chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and more. Stressing humane practices throughout, Glenn Drowns provides expert advice on breed selection, housing, feeding, behavior, breeding, health care, and processing your own meat and eggs. With tips on raising specialty species like doves, ostriches, and peafowl, you’ll be inspired to experiment with new breeds and add diversity to your poultry operation.
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Nimbus Publishing Limited A Future for the Fishery: Crisis and Renewal in
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Awa Press Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery
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West Virginia University Press West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and
Book SynopsisWest Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells celebrates the state of West Virginia. Originally published in 1865 as a series of studies on mineral resources, observations on agriculture, and interviews with businessmen, West Virginia details the industrial statistics, terrain, and population of a state during its infancy. With no record of natural wealth or reported transactions of agriculture or geography prior to this overview, West Virginia sparked the curiosity of non-residents, enticing investment and settlement through descriptions of abundant natural resources and an agreeable industrial condition. With an introduction by Kenneth R. Bailey, this new edition reminds us of the state's alluring beginning and rich, yet often exploited development.
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University of Nevada Press Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry:
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada.Trade Review"This is a story that is simultaneously transnational and intensely local. Historians of the American West are deeply indebted to this fine young historian."— Steven M. Avella, professor of history, Marquette University, Milwaukee"Iker Saiatua provides a fresh perspective on the story of Basque migration to the American West. His painstaking research uncovers new source material and applies current race and labor historiography, while personal anecdotes tie it all together." — John Bieter, author of An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Intensivtierhaltung: Landwirtschaftliche
Book SynopsisIntensive animal husbandry and the way in which food is produced have increasingly become the focus of social attention in recent years in view of ecological, climatic and animal-ethical contexts. In inverse proportion to the decline in the number of farms and employees on farms in rural areas, the profession of farmer has become a media-present and culturally charged projection surface. Barbara Wittmann's study focuses on the farmers themselves and analyzes and contextualizes their positions on society, economic, ecological and animal-ethical problem complexes. It shows that our image of conventional production has to be thought of in a much more complex and less normative way.
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NIAS Press Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements
Book SynopsisSince its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices – star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) – and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights.
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NUS Press Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia's
Book SynopsisThe serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover peatlands that have been drained and cleared for plantations are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This new book explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region. Concerted action will be required to reduce peatland fires, and a successful policy needs to enhance social welfare and economic survival, support natural conservation and provide a return on investment if there is to be a sustainable society in the peatlands.This book argues that regeneration is possible through a new policy of people’s forestry that includes reforestation and rewetting peat soils. The data come from a major long-term research effort—the humanosphere project—that coordinates work done by researchers from the physical, natural and human or social sciences.Trade Review"...provides scholarship that elucidates the complexities of oil palm production, and the challenges presented by peatland agriculture as well as peatland restoration."-The Jakarta Post
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