Organic struggle : the movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States / Brian K. Obach.
Material type:
TextSeries: Food, health, and the environmentPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780262328302
- 0262328305
- 0262328313
- 9780262328319
- Movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States
- Organic farming -- United States
- Sustainable agriculture -- United States
- Agriculture biologique -- États-Unis
- Agriculture durable -- États-Unis
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General
- SCIENCE -- Environmental Science
- Organic farming
- Sustainable agriculture
- United States
- ENVIRONMENT/General
- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
- ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
- 631.5/84 23
- S605.5 .O23 2015
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Print version record.
The birth of the organic movement -- Certification and the state: the dilemmas of growth -- The organic coalition: united and divided -- Are we better off? Movement achievements and the threat from big organic -- Searching for social justice -- Strategic innovation: the three trajectories of the organic movement -- The road not taken and the road ahead.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Organic Struggle' analyzes the evolution of the sustainable agriculture movement in the United States and evaluates its achievements and shortcomings. It traces the development of organic farming from its roots in the 1940s through its embrace by the 1960s counterculture to its mainstream acceptance and development into a multi-billion dollar industry.
English.
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