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Black Drummond, Susan Angora Goats The Northern Way Stoney Lonesome Farm 1993 paperback. Front cover has some fading. . BOOK COND: Used; Good. Faded Spine. Book #or861418. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Evans, L.T. Feeding The Ten Billion: Plants And Population Growth 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114856. ISBN #0521646855 / 9780521646857. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Evans, L.T. Feeding The Ten Billion: Plants And Population Growth 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114856. ISBN #0521646855 / 9780521646857. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the twenty-first century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be addressed? Written to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Malthus' seminal Essay on the Principle of Population, this fascinating book looks at the intimate links between population growth and agricultural innovation over the past 10,000 years, illustrating how the evolution of agriculture has both shaped and been shaped by the course of world population growth. This historical context serves to illuminate our present position and to aid understanding of possible future paths to food security for the planet. This volume is a unique and accessible account that will be of interest to a wide audience concerned with global population, food supply, agricultural development, environmental degradation and resource depletion.
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Fussell, Betty The Story of Corn Knopf 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1008709. ISBN #0394578058 / 9780394578057. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Fussell, Betty The Story of Corn Knopf 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1008709. ISBN #0394578058 / 9780394578057. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A social history of corn discusses the people who, for seven centuries, have planted, eaten, worshipped, processed, and profited from corn, also describing its reaches into commerce, religion, poetry, and alcohol.
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Jeffrey, J. W. Third Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Horticulture of the State of California: For 1907-1908 1909 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111520. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Manning, Richard Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization North Point Press 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105072. ISBN #0865476225 / 9780865476226. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Manning, Richard Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization North Point Press 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105072. ISBN #0865476225 / 9780865476226. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years. The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.
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Neth, Mary Preserving The Family Farm: Women, Community, And The Foundations Of Agribusiness in The Midwest, 1900-1940 1994 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102921. ISBN #0801848989 / 9780801848988. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Neth, Mary Preserving The Family Farm: Women, Community, And The Foundations Of Agribusiness in The Midwest, 1900-1940 1994 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102921. ISBN #0801848989 / 9780801848988. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "In this fine book, Mary Neth looks at the economic and cultural world of farm people... She writes from the inside, showing us its attractions and especially its dependence on family and engagement with community... Her book, like the farmers she writes about, defends a world that does not share the dominant American values. She is to be congratulated. She has done a thorough, thoughtful, and provocative job of it."--Annette Atkins, American Historical Review Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultural industries all combined to bring about changes in farming strategies that had been in use since the frontier era. Because the Midwestern farm economy played an important part in the relations of family and community, new approaches to farm production meant new patterns in interpersonal relations as well. In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations -- of gender and community -- to shed new light on the events of this crucial period. "Neth does not romanticize the hard work of farming in its less industrial stage; nor does she smooth over the deep division of class, race and ethnicity that existed in rural communities. Her careful and very human portrayal of the impact of these circumstances on the lives of farm women and men provides insight into the complexity of such communities, illustrating how the intersection of home, work and community is constantly changing, negotiable and gendered." -- Cornelia Butler Flora, Women's Review of Books "Preserving the Family Farm is well written, meticulously researched, and extremely useful for anyone interested in agricultural, rural, midwestern, or women's history. Neth does a good job of making abstract issues personal... Neth has done much to refocus rural history and give it a richness that it should, but often does not, have."--Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, The Journal of American History
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Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Merrifield, Todd; Gorelick, Steven Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness Kumarian Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103875. ISBN #1565491467 / 9781565491465. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Merrifield, Todd; Gorelick, Steven Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness Kumarian Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103875. ISBN #1565491467 / 9781565491465. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Reveals how bringing food production to a local level revitalizes rural economies in both the industrialized and developing world Published in association with the International Society for Ecology and Culture For readers concerned with agriculture, community development, environmental sustainability, and ecological economics If the many social, environmental, and economic crises facing the planet are to be reversed, local food economies must be rebuilt. Given the constant demand for food, even miniscule changes in its production and marketing can offer immense benefits for farmers, consumers, the economy and the environment. Bringing the Food Economy Home reveals how a shift towards the local would protect and rebuild agricultural diversity by giving farmers a larger share of the money spent on food, and providing consumers with healthier, fresher food at more affordable prices.
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Wallace, Henry A.; Lowitt, Richard Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909 Univ of Oklahoma Pr 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042236. ISBN #080612332X / 9780806123325. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
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Wallace, Henry A.; Lowitt, Richard Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909 Univ of Oklahoma Pr 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042236. ISBN #080612332X / 9780806123325. (filed under: Agriculture ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Franklin D. Roosevelt s agriculture secretary and vice-president, Henry A. Wallace, had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour in search of the Corn Belt farmer. Young Henry was to report to the family journal, Wallace s Farmer, how former Corn Belt farmers were prospering in the districts newly irrigated under public or private auspices, such as Arizona s Salt River, Idaho s Boise-Payette and Twin Falls, and farms on the Arkansas River near Garden City, Kansas. Wallace s articles, collected and reprinted here for the first time, are lively descriptions of up-and-coming western locales such as Amarillo, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; the orange groves of southern California; the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys; and the Greeley District of Colorado. Along the way, the young reporter and agriculturist critiqued dry farming in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and wrestled calves on a Matador Land Company ranch in the Texas panhandle. Henry Wallace made a specialty of down-home conversation with farmers and their wives and of cross-examining the real-estate agents who profited from the government s commitment to sell water rights to the new property owners. He wrote what today we call New History, concentrating on the impact of irrigation on individuals more than technology, law, or institutions. Modern-day readers will prize Wallace s clear, expert analysis of the different environments that he visited and his farmer-conservationist ethic. Social historians will be interested as he explains how the closer proximity of irrigated farms and greater abundance of neighbors would produce prosperous communities with schools, roads, and social institutions better than most that then prevailed in America s rural regions. They will be fascinated to learn how the cooperative aspects of irrigation farming tempered the independence of the immigrants from the Corn Belt.
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