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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Welsh Journal of Agriculture
Author: The Welsh Journal of Agriculture
Author: Journal of the University College of Wales, Agricultural Department
Author: University College of Wales (Aberystwyth, Wales) Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Food and the Mid-level Farm
Author: Thomas A. LysonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262622157
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Agriculture in the United States today increasingly operates in two separate spheres: large, corporate-connected commodity production and distribution systems and small-scale farms that market directly to consumers. As a result, midsize family-operated farms find it increasingly difficult to find and reach markets for their products. They are too big to use the direct marketing techniques of small farms but too small to take advantage of corporate marketing and distribution systems. This crisis of the midsize farm results in a rural America with weakened municipal tax bases, job loss, and population flight. Food and the Mid-Level Farm discusses strategies for reviving an "agriculture of the middle" and creating a food system that works for midsize farms and ranches. Activists, practitioners, and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, political science, and economics, consider ways midsize farms can regain vitality by scaling up aspects of small farms' operations to connect with consumers, organizing together to develop markets for their products, developing food supply chains that preserve farmer identity and are based on fair business agreements, and promoting public policies (at international, federal, state, and community levels) that address agriculture-of-the-middle issues. Food and the Mid-Level Farm makes it clear that the demise of midsize farms and ranches is not a foregone conclusion and that the renewal of an agriculture of the middle will benefit all participants in the food system--from growers to consumers. Thomas A. Lyson was Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University until his death in 2006. He was the author of Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. G.W. Stevenson is Senior Scientist with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-- Madison. Rick Welsh is Associate Professor of Sociology at Clarkson University.
Agricultural Research
Author: Royal Agricultural Society of England. Research CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Economic Conditions in Welsh Agriculture
Author: Arthur Wilfred AshbyPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Author: Edward John T. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521329262
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.
Mobility of Farm Families
Author: John S. NalsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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