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    2. Coping with risk in agriculture

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hardaker, J.B. (author), Anderson, J.R. (author), and Huirne, R.B.M. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1997
    Published:
    International: CAB International, Wallingford, England.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22374
    Notes:
    274 pages.

    3. Identity and development: Tongan culture, agriculture, and the perenniality of the gift

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    van der Grijp, Paul (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    Tonga: KITLV Press, Leiden, The Netherlands.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22017
    Notes:
    225 pages, Emphasizes the importance of cultural ideas and ideology, despite the penetration of capitalism.

    5. Indigenous agricultural revolution: ecology and food production in West Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Richards, Paul (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1985
    Published:
    International: Hutchinson, London, England; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
    Notes:
    192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes. (p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."

    9. The impact of genetically engineered crops on farm sustainability in the United States

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA: National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36298
    Notes:
    250 pages., Report of the Committee on the Impact of Biotechnology on Farm-Level Economics and Sustainability, Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.