In defense of farmers : the future of agriculture in the shadow of corporate power /

In defense of farmers : the future of agriculture in the shadow of corporate power / edited by Jane W. Gibson and Sara E. Alexander ; foreword by John K. Hansen. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Our sustainable future .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Industrial chicken meat and the good life in Bolivia / Automating agriculture: precision technologies, agbots, and the fourth Industrial Revolution / Water to wine: industrial agriculure and groundwater regulation in California / The challenges of climate change for West Texas wheat farmers / From partner to consumer: the changing role of farmers in the public agricultural research process on the Canadian prairies / Transmission of the Brazil model of industrial soybean production: a comparative study of two migrant farming communities in the Brazilian cerrado / The price of success: population decline and community transformation in western Kansas / An alternative future for food and farming / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance -- Donald D. Stull -- Sarah Kollnig -- Jane W. Gibson -- Casey Walsh -- Sara E. Alexander -- Katherine Strand -- Andrew Ofstehage -- Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray -- John Ikerd.



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Agricultural industries.
Farmers.


Electronic Books.

HD9000 / .I534 2019