Planting the Future: Developing an Agriculture That Sustains Land and Community - Brossura

Bird, Elizabeth Ann R.; Bultena, Gordon L.

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ISBN 10: 0813820723 ISBN 13: 9780813820729

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1999

Riassunto

Synthesizes results of the "Sustainable Agriculture Initiative," a "systematic socioeconomic comparison of sustainable and conventional farming" sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation and conducted in a five-state area.

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Few Americans give a second thought to the source of their food and fiber. Fewer still pause to consider how agricultural practices affect the natural environment, farm families, and rural communities. Yet, as a nation, we face critical choices today that will determine the future character of our rural landscape.

• Which approaches to farming hold the most promise of protecting the natural environment while maintaining opportunities for beginning farmers and revitalizing rural communities?


• What public action is needed to enable and encourage farmers to use more sustainable farming practices?

Written for a wide audience, and especially for those involved in policy-making, Planting the Future addresses these questions by

describing the character of "sustainable" and "conventional" farms in the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains;

Assessing the socioeconomic impacts of these different approaches to farming;

Highlighting the agricultural research alternatives needed to advance sustainable agriculture; and

Providing policy options.

Planting the Future offers a rare blend of scientific findings, reflection on the research experience, and analysis of policy implications. This mixture has grown from a diversity of cooperating investigators and authors: Social and agricultural scientists, farmers, and advocates.

Planting the Future is the final report of a multi-state cooperative research effort sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813820723
• ISBN 13: 9780813820729
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276
• Redattore: Gardner John C.
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