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In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role 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.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by John K. Hansen
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Food System Imperiled
Jane W. Gibson
1. Power, Food, and Agriculture: Implications for Farmers, Consumers, and Communities
Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance
2. Chickenizing American Farmers
Donald D. Stull
3. Industrial Chicken Meat and the Good Life in Bolivia
Sarah Kollnig
4. Automating Agriculture: Precision Technologies, Agbots, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Jane W. Gibson
5. Water to Wine: Industrial Agriculture and Groundwater Regulation in California
Casey Walsh
6. Forecasting the Challenges of Climate Change for West Texas Wheat Farmers
Sara E. Alexander
7. From Partner to Consumer: The Changing Role of Farmers in the Public Agricultural Research Process on the Canadian Prairies
Katherine Strand
8. Transmission of the Brazil Model of Industrial Soybean Production: A Comparative Study of Two Migrant Farming Communities in the Brazilian Cerrado
Andrew Ofstehage
9. The Price of Success: Population Decline and Community Transformation in Western Kansas
Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray
10. An Alternative Future for Food and Farming
John Ikerd
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
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.
Summary
In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role 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.
