Aubrun, Axel (author), Brown, Andrew (author), and Grady, Joseph (author)
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Report
Publication Date:
2005-09-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27584
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Posted at http://www.wkkf.org, Pages 67-88 in Perceptions of the U.S. food system: what and how Americans think about their food. W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan. 88 pages.
Parker, Richard (author) and Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D02067
Notes:
Nieman Report. 12 pages., Author emphasizes need and potential of watchdog economic journalism. Suggests shifting from what troubles Americans to inviting them to weigh solutions, their benefits and costs. Refers to the "lost narrative thread in the 1990s, including erosion of the direct experience of the rural, agrarian, pre-capitalist economy that undergirds conditions with America today.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03106
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Sperry New Holland, New Holland, Pennsylvania. 10 pages., Packet of materials honoring farmers and agriculture. They include "A Farmer's Creed," "Me - the farmer" statement and eight illustrated quotations about the importance and dignity of farmers, farming and agriculture.
This study explores how members of the Nebraska Cooperative Council and its constituent producer-owned cooperatives understand and enact democratic ideologies, drawing particular attention to how emergent contraditions and tensions are experienced and managed.
This printed item features only the Introduction and Part 1 of the article. Entire article is available via UI on-line subscription., Author argues that within the United States small-scale, alternative agriculture is a possible "middle ground" between nature and culture, wilderness and city, increasing the social and ecological connectivity of heterogeneous urban, suburban and rural patches within the landscape matrix.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19155
Notes:
Pages 111-170 in U.S. Department of Agriculture, "Farmers in a changing world," 1940 Yearbook of Agriculture, U.S.Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 1,215 pages.