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Organic struggle : the movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States / Brian K. Obach.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Food, health, and the environmentPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262328302
  • 0262328305
  • 0262328313
  • 9780262328319
Other title:
  • Movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Organic struggleDDC classification:
  • 631.5/84 23
LOC classification:
  • S605.5 .O23 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: '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.
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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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