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The Emergent Agriculture: Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy
Kleppel Gary
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Description for The Emergent Agriculture: Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy
Paperback. Local, diverse and resilient -- the new culture of food Num Pages: 192 pages, B&W photos, charts. BIC Classification: JFCV; KNAC; TVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year, exacerbating climate change and threatening the very earth and water on which we depend. However, this dominant system, from which Americans obtain most of their food, is being slowly supplanted by a new paradigm. The Emergent Agriculture is a collection of fourteen thematic essays on sustainability viewed through the lens of farming. Arguing that industrial food production is incompatible with the realities of nature, science, and ethics, this ... Read more
Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year, exacerbating climate change and threatening the very earth and water on which we depend. However, this dominant system, from which Americans obtain most of their food, is being slowly supplanted by a new paradigm. The Emergent Agriculture is a collection of fourteen thematic essays on sustainability viewed through the lens of farming. Arguing that industrial food production is incompatible with the realities of nature, science, and ethics, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Gabriola Island, United States
ISBN
9780865717732
SKU
V9780865717732
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Kleppel Gary
Gary Kleppel is a professor of Biology at the State University of New York at Albany where he focuses on sustainable agriculture, conservation-based grazing, and the ecology of human-dominated landscapes. He and his wife Pam are owners of Longfield Farm, where they produce grass-fed lamb, wool, free range chickens and eggs, and artisanal breads. As part of their educational mandate, ... Read more
Reviews for The Emergent Agriculture: Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy
Tipping points in food and farming are obvious to anyone courageous enough to look. This highly readable treatise explains the healing future awaiting us. Let's learn, embrace, and move forward. This book describes the future perfectly.
-Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm Here's the inside story on the most hopeful development in American culture in recent years. As local food systems grow ... Read more
-Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm Here's the inside story on the most hopeful development in American culture in recent years. As local food systems grow ... Read more