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Urban Agriculture and Community Values: The Green Transformation of Cities

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Urban Agriculture and Community Values: The Green Transformation of Cities

Urban Agriculture and Community Values: The Green Transformation of Cities by Lisa Newton
English | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 168 Pages | ISBN : 3030392422 | 3.8 MB

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice, agriculture is (in the United States but increasingly in the rest of the world) unsustainable and destructive. The most immediately unsustainable feature of industrial agriculture is its dependence on the products of petroleum—as feedstock for fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, and as fuel for the farm machinery and transport of agricultural products into the cities.

Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

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Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future by Annette Aurélie Desmarais
English | November 21st, 2019 | ISBN: 177363173X | 184 pages | EPUB | 10.99 MB

Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of Canada's food systems? Why is this important to those of us who do not farm?