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Henry Dimbleby's Sunday Times bestselling manifesto on how to change the food system

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The food system no longer serves us: it's killing us. Here's why we should be hungry for change

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A shocking and unputdownable expos of the United States meat industry, the devastating failures of the countrys food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food. Perfect for fans of Kochland, The Meat Racket, and The Secret Life of Groceries.

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Practical suggestions for how to better manage your farm finance, with real-life examples.

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Shows that rural America can be revived by uniting the interests of both farm and non-farm populations through value-added enterprises. Specific attention is paid to the role of New Generation Co-operatives as a form of value-added agriculture which has helped some rural communities to prosper.

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This new work contributes to addressing the challenge of eradicating global hunger, by looking at the obstacles which prevent the implementation of a right to food in the era of globalisation.

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Providing a thorough summary of the challenges facing our agricultural industry, this book investigates problems and considers solutions, examining issues relevant to the viability of America's farms.

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Although the domestic marijuana industry may generate revenues as high as $60 billion each year and probably accounts for more than a fourth of the marijuana consumed in the United States, there has been no systematic study of the industry or of the people who cultivate marijuana for profit.

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An analysis of African subsistence culture, which investigates the failures of national agricultural policies and suggests strategies for inducing subsistence farmers to shift to commercial production.

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A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish periods.

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In the last 2 centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding success story. Agriculture has fed population with a variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book explains how these feats were accomplished. It covers various factors that have affected agricultural performance.

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Are GMOs really that bad A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us

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This is a comprehensive survey of how government policies have affected agricultural performance in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The government helped smallholders triple their grain sales in the early 1980s, but left the country vulnerable to drought, leading to emergency food aid imports in 1992.

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The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published in

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Assesses the prospects for a market-place strategy of agriculture, revealing a considerable range of opinion on the subject. Scholars from several disciplines and various countries evaluate the alternatives and principal scenarios for regional trade and market development in global contexts.

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A comprehensive survey of the issues surrounding agrarian reform projects in Latin America and an introduction to the history, land settlement patterns and agriculture of the Dominican Republic. Meyer reviews the literature relevant to the study of reform sector projects.

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This work is an attempt to help those concerned with animal waste managementagricultural economists and policy-makers, environmental and public health officers, farmers, and so ondeal with this critical issue by addressing the problems generated by animal waste within a comprehensive management approach.

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A collection of essays that reviews agricultural progress in Latin America and evaluates its prospects in the 1990s. Convinced that stability is vital to agricultural prosperity within the region, this study defines the obstacles to this goal and develops strategies to meet the challenge.

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Non-Traditional Agriculture and Economic Development identifies the implications of Brazilian economic development of government support for rapid growth of non-traditional agricultural crops such as soybeans.

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