In Defense of Farmers (eBook, PDF)

The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power
Redaktion: Gibson, Jane; Alexander, Sara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. Contextualizing the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within the disciplines of sociology, geography, economics, and anthropology, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. By concentrating on countries with the most sophisticated production technologies capable of producing the largest quantities of grains, soybeans, and animal proteins in the world, this volume focuses attention on the farmers whose labors, decision-making, and risk-taking throw into relief the implications and limitations of our global industrial food system. The case studies here acknowledge the agency of farmers and offer ways forward in the direction of sustainable agriculture. The future of industrial agriculture depends on farmers' decisions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496215918
• Artikelnr.: 72327471

Autorenporträt

Jane W. Gibson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sara E. Alexander is a professor of anthropology at Baylor University. John K. Hansen is president of the Nebraska Farmers Union and chairman of the Legislative Committee for the National Farmers Union. He serves on the National Farmers Union Executive Committee.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword by John K. Hansen
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Food System Imperiled
Jane W. Gibson
1. Power, Food, and Agriculture: Implications for Farmers, Consumers, and
Communities 
Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance
2. Chickenizing American Farmers
Donald D. Stull
3. Industrial Chicken Meat and the Good Life in Bolivia
Sarah Kollnig
4. Automating Agriculture: Precision Technologies, Agbots, and the Fourth
Industrial Revolution
Jane W. Gibson
5. Water to Wine: Industrial Agriculture and Groundwater Regulation in
California
Casey Walsh
6. Forecasting the Challenges of Climate Change for West Texas Wheat
Farmers
Sara E. Alexander
7. From Partner to Consumer: The Changing Role of Farmers in the Public
Agricultural Research Process on the Canadian Prairies
Katherine Strand
8. Transmission of the Brazil Model of Industrial Soybean Production: A
Comparative Study of Two Migrant Farming Communities in the Brazilian
Cerrado
Andrew Ofstehage
9. The Price of Success: Population Decline and Community Transformation in
Western Kansas
Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray
10. An Alternative Future for Food and Farming
John Ikerd
List of Contributors
Index