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Informationen zum Autor Jane W. Gibson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sara E. Alexander is a professor of anthropology at Baylor University. John K. Hansen is president of the Nebraska Farmers Union and chairman of the Legislative Committee for the National Farmers Union. He serves on the National Farmers Union Executive Committee. Klappentext Jane W. Gibson¿is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sara E. Alexander¿is a professor of anthropology at Baylor University. John K. Hansen is president of the Nebraska Farmers Union and chairman of the Legislative Committee for the National Farmers Union. He serves on the National Farmers Union Executive Committee. ¿ Zusammenfassung Illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. This volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForeword by John K. HansenAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Food System ImperiledJane W. Gibson1. Power, Food, and Agriculture: Implications for Farmers, Consumers, and Communities Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance2. Chickenizing American FarmersDonald D. Stull3. Industrial Chicken Meat and the Good Life in BoliviaSarah Kollnig4. Automating Agriculture: Precision Technologies, Agbots, and the Fourth Industrial RevolutionJane W. Gibson5. Water to Wine: Industrial Agriculture and Groundwater Regulation in CaliforniaCasey Walsh6. Forecasting the Challenges of Climate Change for West Texas Wheat FarmersSara E. Alexander7. From Partner to Consumer: The Changing Role of Farmers in the Public Agricultural Research Process on the Canadian PrairiesKatherine Strand8. Transmission of the Brazil Model of Industrial Soybean Production: A Comparative Study of Two Migrant Farming Communities in the Brazilian CerradoAndrew Ofstehage9. The Price of Success: Population Decline and Community Transformation in Western KansasJane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray10. An Alternative Future for Food and FarmingJohn IkerdList of ContributorsIndex ...
