TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ikerd,John E.
TI  - Crisis & opportunity: sustainability in American agriculture 
T2  - Our sustainable future
SN  - 9780803217447 (electronic bk.)
AV  - S494.5.S86 I38 2008eb
U1  - 630.973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Sustainable agriculture
KW  - United States
KW  - Alternative agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Farms, Small
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Title from ebook title page (viewed Nov. 04, 2009); Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325); Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture -- Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture -- Corporate agriculture and family farms -- The corporatization of America -- Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming -- Farming in harmony with nature and society -- Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming -- Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture? -- Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability -- Economics of sustainable farming -- The renaissance of rural America -- Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture -- Survival strategies for small farms -- Marketing in the niches for sustainability -- Local organic farms save farmland and communities -- The triple bottom line of farming in the future -- The real costs of globalization -- Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability -- The new American food system -- American agriculture after fossil energy
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