January 1st, 2010 
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- ISBN13: 9781584654148
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community’s social and economic development. Civ… More >>
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The issues that are addressed by Thomas Lyson in this small volume are important and becoming more so. He describes in adequate detail the progression from subsistance farming of our great grand parents to the industrial farms of today. He goes on to discuss how feeding and clothing the world’s growing population in that manner is becoming more and more problematic and shows how the development of community based agriculture provides a path out of that morass.
One need not be an agronomist or agricultural economist to appreciate Professor Lyson’s statement of the problem and its possible solution. In fact, the non-technical reader could well perceive this book as a good starting point for participation in this most important discussion.
Rating: 4 / 5