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Through most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first-and is still the only-general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions about the American experience. Danbom employs the stories of particular...
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This title, "Farmers," shows readers how farmers help their communities, using familiar examples of the food they provide. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
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""Woodsqueer" is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences not just making a living but making a life - in this case, an agrarian one more in tune with the earth on eighty acres in backwoods Maine....
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"Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of a 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, National Winner in "Culinary History"" Michaela DeSoucey is assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University.
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Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences and director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including Rough Country, Small-Town America, Red State Religion, and Remaking the Heartland (all Princeton).
A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm families
Farming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact...
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Peut-on à la fois nourrir les hommes en améliorant leur santé, lutter contre le changement climatique, améliorer le revenu et la fonction des agriculteurs et pêcheurs, restaurer les écosystèmes, fournir de nouvelles productions et de nouveaux services, intégrer le bien-être animal, garantir la qualité des produits, offrir saveurs, terroirs et paysages? Le tout en solidarité avec le reste du monde. La liste est longue des injonctions adressées...
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La agricultura periurbana está adquiriendo en los últimos tiempos un gran interés analítico y prospectivo en el marco de las renovadas políticas agroalimentarias y de planificación territorial. Para fortalecer su papel de proveedora de alimentos de calidad y proximidad, se requiere un mayor y mejor conocimiento de este tipo peculiar de agricultura a la luz de un marco teórico renovado que dé soporte a la acción pública para garantizar su...
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Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture-fresh food, green space, educational opportunities-can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder to achieve. Realizing social and environmental justice requires moving beyond food production to address deeper issues such as structural racism, gender...
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In Capacity, systems thinker Carolyn Drugge offers a new and hopeful approach to addressing climate change. Many have argued that new technologies and greater efficiencies will not adequately solve the problem of climate change but few offer actual ways forward. Capacity provides a framework for addressing the issue, not merely the symptoms.
In the space that exists between our desire for a better world and our ability to create it lies a set of...
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Examining the roots and fruits of the urban foodscape Our cities are places of food polarities food deserts and farmers markets, hunger and food waste, fast food delivery and urban gardening. While locavores and preserving pros abound, many of us cant identify the fruit trees in our yards or declare a berry safe to eat. Those plants and the people who planted them are often forgotten. In The Fruitful City, Helena Moncrieff examines our relationship...
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Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much "energy-dense" food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual lifestyle choices. Since the 1980s, the shift toward neoliberal regulation has enabled agribusiness multinationals to thrive by selling a combination of meat and highly processed foods loaded with refined flour and sugars-a...
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Au cœur de la Bretagne, Maintenant que je suis mort nous plonge dans le monde rural d'aujourd'hui, caractérisé par ses drames, ses bonheurs, ses reculs révoltants et ses innovations prometteuses qui sont autant d'histoires d'amour. Les modèles économiques productivistes ne sont pas en danger. Pourtant, ils défendent bec et ongles une agriculture qui met la terre en danger, le bien vivre de nombre de nos enfants également. Plus qu'une simple...
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Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables shows how the demand for ethnocultural vegetables on the part of Toronto's South Asian, Chinese, and Afro-Caribbean Canadians is at odds with the corporate food regime. How does that regime affect the local food movement and ethnic groups' access to their preferred foods? This book addresses that question and suggests that the protection of ethnic and national food security and sovereignty...
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India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's leading producers of beef, leather, and milk, industries sustained by the mass slaughter of bovines. What is behind this seeming contradiction? What do bovines, deemed holy in Hinduism, experience in the Indian milk and beef industries? Yamini Narayanan asks...
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This book is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book explores the question of how and why chefs make choices about the dishes they put on their menus. It answers this question by examining a whole range of areas, including chefs' careers, restaurant ratings and reviews, social networks, how chefs think about food and go about...
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In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness typically have been viewed through historical, economic, and political lenses. But as William Conlogue demonstrates, some of the most vital and incisive debates on the subject have occurred in a site...
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Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's field. Focusing on Asia and Latin America, Lang explores lowland and upland rice systems, genetics, sustainable agriculture, and efforts to narrow the gap...
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Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and...
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China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity,...
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This is a survival guidebook that reflects the world in which we now find ourselves. The post 9/11 world seems more hostile, as terrorist threats and attacks are no longer a surprise. The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 showed us that quick extinctions can and do happen without apparent warning. Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy not only told us that it can happen to us, but that it is foolhardy to make no preparations and pretend that the government will...
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