Food and the mid-level farm: renewing an agriculture of the middle edited by Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh.
Series: Food, health, and the environmentPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008Description: xvii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780262122993 (hardcover); 0262122995 (hardcover); 9780262622158 (pbk.); 0262622157 (pbk.)Subject(s): Family farms -- United States | Farm produce -- United States -- Marketing | Exploitations agricoles familiales -- États-Unis | Produits agricoles -- États-Unis -- CommercialisationDDC classification: 338.16 LOC classification: HD1476.U6 | F66 2008| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-286) and index.
I. Agriculture of the Middle: Why Farm Structure Matters -- 1. Why Worry about the Agriculture of the Middle? / Fred Kirschenmann, G. W. Stevenson, Frederick Buttel, Thomas A. Lyson and Mike Duffy -- 2. Pursuing Long-Term Food and Agricultural Security in the United States: Decentralization, Diversification, and Reduction of Resource Intensity / Kenneth A. Dalhberg -- II. Organizational Structures That Could Support an Agriculture of the Middle -- 3. Cooperative Structure for the Middle: Mobilizing for Power and Identity / Thomas W. Gray and G. W. Stevenson -- 4. Is Relationship Marketing an Alternative to the Corporatization of Organics? A Case Study of OFARM / Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh -- 5. Contractual Integration in Agriculture: Is There a Bright Side for Agriculture of the Middle? / Mary Hendrickson, William Heffernan, David Lind and Elizabeth Barham -- III. Bringing Mid-Level Supply Chains and Consumers Together -- 6. Consumer Considerations and the Agriculture of the Middle / Eileen Brady and Caitlin O'Brady -- 7. Values-Based Supply Chains: Strategies for Agrifood Enterprises of the Middle / G. W. Stevenson and Rich Pirog -- IV. Policies That Could Support the Agriculture of the Middle -- 8. Toward a Pro-Middle Farm Policy: What Will It Take to Ensure a Promising Future for Family Farming? / Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer -- 9. Agriculture of the Middle: Lessons Learned from Civic Agriculture / Thomas A. Lyson -- 10. The Effect of Laws That Foster Agricultural Bargaining: Apple Growers in Michigan and New York State / Shelly Grow, Amy Guptill, Elizabeth Higgins, Thomas A. Lyson and Rick Welsh -- 11. Sustaining the Middle: The Roles of Sustainable Agriculture and Agri-Environmental Payments / Sandra S. Batie -- 12. The Prospects and Limits of Antitrust and Competitive-Market Strategies / Peter Carstensen -- Epilogue: Strategies for Strengthening the Agriculture of the Middle / G. W. Stevenson, Rick Welsh and Thomas A. Lyson -- Appendix: The Changing Status of Farms and Ranches of the Middle / Mike Duffy.
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