Farming for Us All - Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability

About the author

Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several books including the award-winning Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village (1994) and The Face of Connecticut: People, Geology, and the Land (1984).

Summary

Based on interviews and years of close interaction with more than 60 Iowa farm families, Bell answers two critical questions concerning sustainable agriculture: why some farmers are becoming sustainable farmers and why, as yet, most are not.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Michael Mayerfeld (Associate Professor of Rural Sociology) Bell
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780271023861
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02386-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 3 Charts; 26 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Rural Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches