Food, farms, and community : exploring food systems / Lisa Chase & Vern Grubinger.
"Throughout the United States, people are increasingly concerned about where their food comes from, how it is produced, and how its production affects individuals and their communities. While large, distant farms and multinational companies dominate at the national and global levels, innovative...
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Durham, New Hampshire :
University of New Hampshire Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to food systems
- Local food systems
- The business of food and farming
- Values in food systems
- The agricultural workforce
- Farming and the environment
- Climate change and agriculture
- Energy, food, and farms
- Access to healthy food
- Farm to school
- Agritourism and on-farm marketing
- Food safety from farm to fork
- The next generation of farmers
- Maintaining farms and farmland for the future
- Improving food systems.