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Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up

By: Daphne Miller M.D.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: March 2016

Seller ID: 263846

ISBN: 0062103156

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.

By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming--from seed choice to soil management--that have a direct and powerful impact on our health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring...
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Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World's Food Crises (The Ingenuity Project)

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: House of Anansi Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 260449

ISBN: 0887841864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

As humanity enters the 21st century, globalization and modernization promise to make for more consumption of grains, beef, and fish than ever before. The 2 billion inhabitants of India and China are set to purchase at unprecedented levels, and sub-Saharan Africa will need to overcome its many torturous famines. What kinds of fixes can ensure the stability of the food supply throughout the 21st century and beyond? Feeding the Future provides pragmatic, learned solutions to the issues that loom large. Nine chapters, each penned by a different expert, examine issues ranging from food safet...
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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution

By: Jennifer Cockrall-King

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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The Future of Family Farms: Practical Farmers' Legacy Letters Project

By: N/A

Price: $18.98

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press: September 2016

Seller ID: 263847

ISBN: 1609384539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions ...
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