04492nam 2200673 a 450 991077918330332120200520144314.01-283-89618-41-61168-303-3(CKB)2550000000100531(EBL)1085080(OCoLC)794670610(SSID)ssj0000671469(PQKBManifestationID)11457516(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671469(PQKBWorkID)10625162(PQKB)11207320(MdBmJHUP)muse17340(Au-PeEL)EBL1085080(CaPaEBR)ebr10561100(CaONFJC)MIL420868(MiAaPQ)EBC1085080(EXLCZ)99255000000010053120040305d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCivic agriculture[electronic resource] reconnecting farm, food, and community /Thomas A. LysonMedford, Mass. Tufts University Press ;Lebanon, N.H. University Press of New England20041 online resource (161 p.)Civil society : historical and contemporary perspectivesDescription based upon print version of record.1-58465-413-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-131) and index.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 States3 | 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 AgricultureMoving 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 DevelopmentProfiling 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; IndexA engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.Civil society.AgricultureEconomic aspectsUnited StatesAgricultureSocial aspectsUnited StatesAgriculture, CooperativeUnited StatesCommunity developmentUnited StatesAgricultureEconomic aspectsAgricultureSocial aspectsAgriculture, CooperativeCommunity development338.1/0973Lyson Thomas A1527614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779183303321Civic agriculture3851180UNINA