Food and Social Policy, I: Proceedings of the 1976 Midwestern Food and Social Policy Conference, Volume 1Gary H. Koerselman, Kay E. Dull Iowa State University Press, 1978 - 400 pages Food and the future of civilization; Generalists and specialists; Corporate agriculture and the family farm; The question of triage - Who shall die?; The role of food in foreign affairs; Food as the foundation of civilization; food and celebration; Intraindustrial communications in agribusiness; Feeding animals versus feeding people; Agricultural policy for the United States; Feasibility of a food reserve system; Farm-retail price spread; Closed cities issue; Grain spection; Regulation and the market system; Research and education in agriculture; Urban expansion versus black soil. |
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... past couple of years has been accompanied by a revival of the fear , periodic in its emergence , that the world is running out of food and that some cataclysmic Malthu- sian solution will shortly be upon us . " Whether or not such fears ...
... past couple of years has been accompanied by a revival of the fear , periodic in its emergence , that the world is running out of food and that some cataclysmic Malthu- sian solution will shortly be upon us . " Whether or not such fears ...
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... Past and the Developing World's Future , " Proc . AAG , vol . 7 , pp . 60-63 . 5. R. Graves ( 1917 ) , " Fearful Famines of the Past , " Na- tional Geographic 32 : 69-71 . 6. M. Rostovtsev ( 1926 ) , Social and Economic History of the ...
... Past and the Developing World's Future , " Proc . AAG , vol . 7 , pp . 60-63 . 5. R. Graves ( 1917 ) , " Fearful Famines of the Past , " Na- tional Geographic 32 : 69-71 . 6. M. Rostovtsev ( 1926 ) , Social and Economic History of the ...
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... past , which has been dominated by the Jeffersonian agrarian myth . That past is filled with far more suffering and drudgery than we want to face up to . The Homestead Act , wonderful as it was , caused more voluntary and involuntary ...
... past , which has been dominated by the Jeffersonian agrarian myth . That past is filled with far more suffering and drudgery than we want to face up to . The Homestead Act , wonderful as it was , caused more voluntary and involuntary ...
Contents
2 GENERALISTS AND SPECIALISTS | 37 |
3 CORPORATE AGRICULTURE AND THE FAMILY FARM | 46 |
Oren Lee Staley president 195576 National | 66 |
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