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In defense of farmers : the future of agriculture in the shadow of corporate power / edited by Jane W. Gibson and Sara E. Alexander ; foreword by John K. Hansen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Our sustainable futurePublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496215895
  • 1496215893
  • 9781496215918
  • 1496215915
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In defense of farmers.DDC classification:
  • 338.1 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .I48 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance -- Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Donald D. Stull -- Industrial chicken meat and the good life in Bolivia / Sarah Kollnig -- Automating agriculture: precision technologies, agbots, and the fourth Industrial Revolution / Jane W. Gibson -- Water to wine: industrial agriculure and groundwater regulation in California / Casey Walsh -- The challenges of climate change for West Texas wheat farmers / Sara E. Alexander -- From partner to consumer: the changing role of farmers in the public agricultural research process on the Canadian prairies / Katherine Strand -- Transmission of the Brazil model of industrial soybean production: a comparative study of two migrant farming communities in the Brazilian cerrado / Andrew Ofstehage -- The price of success: population decline and community transformation in western Kansas / Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray -- An alternative future for food and farming / John Ikerd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance -- Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Donald D. Stull -- Industrial chicken meat and the good life in Bolivia / Sarah Kollnig -- Automating agriculture: precision technologies, agbots, and the fourth Industrial Revolution / Jane W. Gibson -- Water to wine: industrial agriculure and groundwater regulation in California / Casey Walsh -- The challenges of climate change for West Texas wheat farmers / Sara E. Alexander -- From partner to consumer: the changing role of farmers in the public agricultural research process on the Canadian prairies / Katherine Strand -- Transmission of the Brazil model of industrial soybean production: a comparative study of two migrant farming communities in the Brazilian cerrado / Andrew Ofstehage -- The price of success: population decline and community transformation in western Kansas / Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray -- An alternative future for food and farming / John Ikerd.

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