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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Prometheus: February 2012
Seller ID: 263832
ISBN: 1616144580
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands--and in our cities. This book examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits, and taking their "food security" into their own hands. The author, an award-winning food journalist, sought out leaders in the urban-agriculture movement and visited cities successfully dealing with "food deserts." What she found was not just a niche concern of activists but a global movement that cuts across the private and pub...
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Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru
By: Thomas Spear
Price: $5.98
Publisher: University of California Press: April 1997
Seller ID: 222324
ISBN: 0520206193
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
This is the first extended study of one of the most historically and culturally interesting regions of Tanzania in East Africa. Mountain Farmers is a detailed comparative history of two ethnic groups who share one mountain home--the Meru are traditionally farmers; the Arusha cattle-herders related to the Maasai. Thomas Spear's engaging study, based on recent archival and field research, ranges across several centuries of political and economic history, comparing the responses of these very different peoples to the settlement of Mount Meru, to colonial conquest, and to increasing land sh...
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