1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707971603321

Titolo

Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session : Subcommittee on Readiness hearing on the Department of the Navy 2017 operations and maintenance budget request and readiness posture : hearing held March 17, 2016

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 47 pages)

Soggetti

Legislative hearings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"H.A.S.C. no. 114-114."

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779183303321

Autore

Lyson Thomas A

Titolo

Civic agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : reconnecting farm, food, and community / / Thomas A. Lyson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Medford, Mass., : Tufts University Press

Lebanon, N.H., : University Press of New England, 2004

ISBN

1-283-89618-4

1-61168-303-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Civil society : historical and contemporary perspectives

Disciplina

338.1/0973

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States

Agriculture - Social aspects - United States

Agriculture, Cooperative - United States

Community development - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-131) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 | Introduction: Community Agriculture and Local Food Systems; Civic Agriculture; Farming and Food Today; A Place for Civic Agriculture; Plan of the Book; 2 | From Subsistence to Production: How American Agriculture Was Made Modern; Agriculture and Rural Life; The Emergence of Modern Economic Forms; Early Agricultural Development; Three Agricultural Revolutions; The Social Construction of Modern Economic Categories; Civic Economy, Economic Embeddedness, and the Informal Economy; The Civic/Embedded Economy in the United States

3 | Going Global: The Industrialization and Consolidation of Agriculture and Food Production in the United StatesFrom Craft Production to Mass Production; The Trend toward Concentration and Consolidation; Changing Geography of Production; Distancing: Separating Production and Consumption; Control of Farmland; Labor Intensification; Supply Chains; 4 | The Global Supply Chain; The Global Food System; The Jolly Green Giant as a Corporate Migrant; Grocery Wars; Corporate Reach: The Men and Women behind the Food System; Whither the Poor Consumer?; 5 | Toward a Civic Agriculture

Moving toward Civic AgricultureTheoretical Underpinnings of Civic Agriculture; Walter Goldschmidt's Landmark Study; Production Districts; Two Models of Agricultural Development; Neoclassical Economics versus Pragmatism; Production versus Development Frameworks; Experimental Biology versus Ecological Biology; Corporate versus Community Orientation; Corporate Middle Class versus Independent Middle Class; Political Processes and Power; Motors for Change; Civic Agriculture and Sustainable Agriculture; Why Didn't Small Business Flourish?; 6 | Civic Agriculture and Community Agriculture Development

Profiling Civic AgricultureCommunity-Supported Agriculture; Restaurant Agriculture; Farmers' Markets; Roadside Stands; Urban Agriculture, City Farming, Community Gardens; Measuring Civic Agriculture; 7 | From Commodity Agriculture to Civic Agriculture; Commodity Agriculture; Refashioning Farming to Fit the Marketplace; Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community: Tools for Change; Civic Agriculture: Moving from the Marketplace to the Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00035386

Titolo

PHILIPPINE labour migration : critical dimension of public policy / Joaquin Gonzalez III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

soft cover

ISBN

98-13-05583-9

Descrizione fisica

Singapore : ISEAS, 1998

Classificazione

FIL XII

Soggetti

ASIA MERIDIONALE - EMIGRAZIONE E IMMIGRAZIONE

FILIPPINE - Emigrazione - Aspetti politici-economici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia