Americas Farm Crisis

Author : Joseph N. Belden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682420
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirt Rich, Dirt Poor written by Joseph N. Belden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1986, is a major reference work for the political discussions arising out of the 1985 Congress revisions of US food and farm laws. It covers production, distribution and consumption of food, analyses international as well as domestic problems, and presents new ways forward. Emphasising public policy and programmes, the book has chapters on agricultural production; environmental and resource problems; food marketing; domestic hunger and nutrition; and world hunger and development.

Author : Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Heartland written by Osha Gray Davidson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the decline of the Heartland and its transformation into a bitterly divided and isolated regional ghetto. Through interviews with more than two hundred farmers, social workers, government officials, and scholars, he puts a human face on the farm crisis of the 1980s. In this expanded edition, Davidson emphasizes the tenacious power of far-right-wing groups; his chapter on these burgeoning rural organizations in the original edition of Broken Heartland was the first in-depth look - six years before the Oklahoma City bombing - at the politics of hate they nurture. He also spotlights NAFTA, hog lots, sustainable agriculture, and the other battles and changes over the past six years in rural America.

Author : Tom Philpott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635573149
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perilous Bounty written by Tom Philpott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott. More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate interests have put American agriculture into a state of "quiet emergency," from dangerous drought in California--which grows more than 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables we eat--to catastrophic topsoil loss in the "breadbasket" heartland of the United States. Whether or not we take heed, these urgent crises of industrial agriculture will define our future. In Perilous Bounty, veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores and exposes the small handful of seed and pesticide corporations, investment funds, and magnates who benefit from the trends that imperil us, with on-the-ground dispatches featuring the scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists who are valiantly and inventively pushing back. Resource scarcity looms on the horizon, but rather than pointing us toward an inevitable doomsday, Philpott shows how the entire wayward ship of American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles the farmers and communities in the nation's two key growing regions developing resilient, soil-building, water-smart farming practices, and readying for the climate shocks that are already upon us; and he explains how we can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream.

Author : Carol Gorman
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531104088
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Farm Crisis written by Carol Gorman and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of American farming since the 1960s and examines the effects of the farm crisis on different segments of the population.

Author : Kathryn Marie Dudley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226169118
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debt and Dispossession written by Kathryn Marie Dudley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social impact of the farm debt crisis of the 1980's through interviews with members of an agricultural community.

Author : Eric Ramírez-Ferrero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231130252
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubled Fields written by Eric Ramírez-Ferrero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide--not accident as previously assumed--was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among male farmers. Ramirez-Ferrero suggests that the root causes lie not in purely economic or personal factors but rather in the processes of modernization. Using emotions and gender as modes of analysis, he locates these men's stories in the wider context of American history, agricultural economics and politics, capitalism, and Christianity.

Author : Peggy F. Barlett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807843994
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dreams, Rural Realities written by Peggy F. Barlett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the stories and words of over a hundred farm families in an average county in Georgia's prime agricultural region to construct an account of the disaster years and their consequences.

Author : Carl Theodore Schmidt
Publisher : New York : Oxford U.P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Farmers in the World Crisis written by Carl Theodore Schmidt and published by New York : Oxford U.P.. This book was released on 1941 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Thompson, Jr.
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603589139
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Over Home written by Charles Thompson, Jr. and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019” An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Farm Crisis written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: