Sustainable agriculture: it's about more than food

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ikerd, John (author / University of Missouri)
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2002
    URL:
    http://www.growalabama.com/sustainableagriculture.asp
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23371
    Subject Term:
    cooperatives, distribution, farmers, farming methods, food, history, indigenous knowledge, marketing, rural-urban communication, sustainability, traditional knowledge, and deskilling
    Notes:
    3 pages., "Sustainable agriculture is not just about sustaining agriculture, it is about sustaining people through agriculture. It is about stopping the exploitation and extraction of industrialization and finding self-renewing, regenerative systems that will sustain the land, sustain rural people, and sustain all people, of all times." Describes a farmer to consumer cooperative, Grow Alabama.

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