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American agriculture in the twentieth century : how it flourished and what it cost / by Gardner, Bruce L.;

"Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes behind these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action"--jacket.Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-378) and index.Introduction -- Technology -- Farms -- Farm communities -- Markets -- Government I : public investment and regulation -- Government II : commodity and trade policy -- Explanations -- Regions and states -- Counties -- Findings and policy implications.

Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Family farms; Farm income; Agricultural credit.; Agricultural productivity.; Agricultural subsidies; Agriculture and state; Agricultural laws and legislation; Agricultura y estado;

© 2002., Harvard University Press,

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The future of food [videorecording] / by Garcia, Deborah Koons.; Lily Films.;

DVD format.Narrator, Sara Maamouri.Editor, Vivien Hillgrove ; photography, John Chater ; music, Todd Boekelheide.Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Genetically modified foods.; Agricultural biotechnology.; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture and politics.; Agriculture and state.; Food supply; Organic farming.; Sustainable agriculture.;

© c2004., Lily Films,

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Agricide : the hidden crisis that affects us all / by Fox, Michael W.,1937-;

Bibliography: p. 185-189.

Subjects: Livestock; Animal industry; Livestock factories; Animal welfare; Agriculture; Agricultural industries; Agricultural ecology; Agricultural pollution; Food industry and trade; Diet;

© 1986., Schocken Books,

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Farming and the environment / by Lambert, Mark,1946-;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Discusses the impact of agriculture on the environment and new, environmentally safe farming methods that could create a better future.

Subjects: Agricultural ecology; Agricultural pollution; Agriculture; Agricultural conservation; Agriculture.; Ecology.;

© c1991., Steck-Vaughn,

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Hard tomatoes, hard times; the original Hightower report, unexpurgated, of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the failure of America's land grant college complex and selected additional views of the problems and prospects of American agriculture in the late seventies / by Hightower, Jim,1943-; Agribusiness Accountability Project.Task Force on the Land Grant College Complex.;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Agricultural colleges; Agriculture; Agricultural industries; State universities and colleges; Agricultural extension work;

© [c1978]., Schenkman Pub. Co.,

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New South, new law : the legal foundations of credit and labor relations in the postbellum agricultural South / by Woodman, Harold D.;

Subjects: Agricultural laws and legislation; Farm tenancy; Agricultural laborers; Agricultural credit; Liens; Agriculture Law History; United States;

© c1995., Louisiana State University Press,

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Fighting for the farm : rural America transformed / by Adams, Jane(Jane H.);

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index.The social economy of development: the state of/and the Imperial Valley / Alan P. Rudy -- From the national policy to continentalism and globalization: the shifting context of Canadian agricultural policies / K. Murray Knuttila -- The contested terrain of swine production: deregulation and reregulation of corporate farming laws in Missouri / Douglas H. Constance, Anna M. Kleiner, and J. Sanford Rikoon -- The contingent creation of rural interest groups / Miriam J. Wells -- The origin of the federal Farm Loan Act: issue emergence and agenda-setting in the progressive era print press / Stuart W. Shulman -- Low modernism and the agrarian New Deal: a different kind of state / Jess Gilbert -- The New Deal farm programs: looking for reconstruction in American agriculture / Mary Summers -- The U.S. farm financial crisis of the 1980s / Barry J. Barnett -- The entrepreneurial self: identity and morality in a midwestern farming community / Kathryn Marie Dudley -- Considerably more than vegetables, a lot less than community: the dilemma of community supported agriculture / Laura B. DeLind -- Canadian agricultural policy: liberal, global, and sustainable / Alan Hall -- Constructing genetic engineering in the food and fiber system as a problem: urban social movement organizations as players in agricultural discourse / Ann Reisner -- Eating in the gardens of Gaia: envisioning polycultural communities / Harriet Friedmann.

Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture and state; Agriculture and state; Agricultural credit; Agricultural credit; Farms, Small; Farms, Small; Agricultural innovations;

© c2003., University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Farmland or wasteland : a time to choose : overcoming the threat to America's farm and food future / by Sampson, R. Neil.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Soil conservation; Agriculture; Water-supply, Agricultural; Agricultural conservation; Land use, Rural; Water conservation;

© c1981., Rodale Press,

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The future world of agriculture / by Murphy, Wendy B.; Grolier Incorporated.;

Traces the history of agriculture with emphasis on future methods of farming and growing food.

Subjects: Agricultural innovations; Agriculture; Agricultural innovations; Agriculture; Agricultural exhibitions; Agricultural innovations.; Agriculture; Agricultural exhibitions;

© c1984., Grolier,

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Altars of unhewn stone : science and the earth / by Jackson, Wes.;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural ecology; Sustainable agriculture;

© 1987., North Point Press,

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