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Author : Denton E. Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Agricultural societies
ISBN : OCLC:13427627
Author : Louis Aubrey Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:1160644394
Author : Marshall Ganz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199757855
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains.
Author : Monica M. White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469643700
In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
Author : Peter Andrée,Jill K. Clark,Charles Z. Levkoe,Kristen Lowitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429994371
This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements. As global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a more active role in building social justice and ecological sustainability. Drawing on case studies from Canada, the United States, Europe and New Zealand, this edited collection showcases promising ways forward for civil society actors to engage in governance. The authors address topics including: the variety of forms that governance engagement takes from multi-stakeholderism to co-governance to polycentrism/self-governance; the values and power dynamics that underpin these different types of governance processes; effective approaches for achieving desired values and goals; and, the broader relationships and networks that may be activated to support change. By examining and comparing a variety of governance innovations, at a range of scales, the book offers insights for those considering contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation. It is suitable for food studies students and researchers within geography, environmental studies, anthropology, policy studies, planning, health sciences and sociology, and will also be of interest to policy makers and civil society organisations with a focus on food systems. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9780429503597, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Theodore Saloutos
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0266037992
Excerpt from Farmer Movements in the South, 1865-1933 Individual personalities should perhaps comprise a weighty portion of this study, but the obscure character of so many of the farm leaders (plus the fact that they did not keep diaries, correspondence, and a running account of their activities and business associations) makes it difficult, if not impossible, to write about them as persons. These organizations waged a multiple offensive on the social, political, and economic front; they cannot be said to have been inspired by a key idea, unless that key idea was to elevate the status of the farmer. But even this brought forth wide differences of Opinion as to the objectives, the tactics, and the general over-all strategy to be employed. By present-day standards the arguments of these organizations and their spokesmen sound commonplace; and judging from the remarks of some, they should be dismissed as insignificant. That these agrarians were erratic, inexperienced dreamers who were carried away by their enthusiasm, and despised by the better-placed members of society, is generally acknowledged. That frauds and impostors found their way into these organizations is likewise granted; but to adjudge all these people as frauds and impostors is a gross distortion of the facts. Society is composed of ephemeral groups with whom many of us are in disagree ment, and for whom many academicians in particular have nothing but contempt. But these people existed, agitated, and proselytized; they constituted a significant part of their times, whether we agree with them or not. The fact that critics consider their thinking shallow and pedestrian is no reason for denying them their place in history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Nettie Wiebe,Annette Aurélie Desmarais,Hannah Wittman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Alternative agriculture
ISBN : 1552664430
Policy-related challenges to building community-based agriculture and food systems that are ecologically sustainable and socially just are also highlighted.
Author : Rob Cramb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811509988
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their food security and well-being. In the past four decades, rice has also become a commercial crop of great importance to Mekong farmers, augmenting but not replacing its role in securing their subsistence. This book is based on collaborative research to (a) compare the current situation and trajectories of rice farmers within and between different regions of the Lower Mekong, (b) explore the value chains linking rice farmers with new technologies and input and output markets within and across national borders, and (c) understand the changing role of government policies in facilitating the on-going evolution of commercial rice farming. An introductory section places the research in geographical and historical context. Four major sections deal in turn with studies of rice farming, value chains, and policies in Northeast Thailand, Central Laos, Southeastern Cambodia, and the Mekong Delta. The final section examines the implications for rice policy in the region as a whole.
Author : John A. Dixon,David P. Gibbon,Aidan Gulliver,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251046271
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author : Leah Penniman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : African American cooking
ISBN : 9781603587617
"Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement." --
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552502167
Author : United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045164154
Author : Patricia Allen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271022680
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices at a vibrant farmers’ market. Together at the Table is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future. At the heart of these efforts are the movements for sustainable agriculture and community food security. Both movements seek to reconstruct the agrifood system—the food production chain, from the growing of crops to food production and distribution—to become more ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Allen describes the ways in which people working in these movements view the world and how they see their place in challenging and reshaping the agrifood system. She also shows how ideas and practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have already woven their way into the dominant agrifood institutions. Allen explores the possibilities this process may hold for improving social and environmental justice in the American agrifood system. Together at the Table is an important reminder that much work still remains to be done. Now that the ideas and priorities of alternative food movements have taken hold, it is time for the next—even more challenging—step. Alternative agrifood movements must acknowledge and address the deeper structural and cultural patterns that constrain the long-term resolution of social and environmental problems in the agrifood system.
Author : Pete Daniel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469602028
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
Author : Darrin Qualman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781773630878
The modern world is wondrous. Its factories produce ten thousand cars every hour and ten trillion transistors every second. We carry supercomputers in our pockets, and nearly a million people are in the air at any time. In Civilization Critical, Darrin Qualman takes readers on a tour of the wonders of the 21st century. But the great strength of our modern word is also its great weakness. Our immense powers to turn resources and nature into products and waste imperil our future. And plans to double and redouble the size of the global economy veto sustainability. So, is our civilization doomed? No. Doom is a choice. We can make different choices. Qualman demonstrates that a 19th- and 20th-century transition to linear systems and away from the circular patterns of nature (and of all previous civilizations) is the foundational error—the underlying problem, the root cause of climate change, resource depletion, ocean’s full of plastics, and a host of mega-problems now intensifying and merging, with potentially civilization-cracking results. In this sweeping work, Qualman reinterprets and re-explains the problems we face today, and charts a clear, hopeful path into the future.
