Examines current and potential connections between the environmental sustainability of contemporary farming practices and the socioeconomic viability of rural communities.
Via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Describes a program designed to encourage farmers to take "positive approaches to help protect the environment and keep peace with their neighbors."
Jones, Tim (author / Chicago Tribune) and Martin, Andrew (author / Chicago Tribune)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-03-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23821
Notes:
Knight-Ridder Tribune via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., On grassroots resistance to large swine operations in Missouri and other Midwestern states. "The battle has been framed as a clash between agricultural economic development and the protection of quality of life."
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.
