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Part of the series The Commonwealth Fund Book Program;Commonwealth Fund Book Program (Series)
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• Includes index.
• American farming has driven American life and fed much of the world for three centuries. Often in the words of farmers themselves, here is the story of what grows where and why, of America’s primary farming regions east of the Rockies. What was it like Back then to be a farmer? What of the plight of the family farm, what of government programs? What shape will American farming take in the next century? This is a fully informed survey of our number-one industry by one of America’s premier geographers. –Book review.

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• Agriculture — United States — History.
• Agriculture. fast (OCoLC)fst00801355
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Agriculture United States History
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index.
• Public Produce captures the momentum that has been building around bringing agriculture back into our cities since the publication of the first edition in 2009. Taking readers from inspiration to implementation, this substantial revision profiles the efforts of many communities rethinking the role of public space, and explores how our urban gathering spots might nourish both body and soul. — Back cover.
• Food security — The cost of healthy calories — Public space, public officials, public policy — To glean and forage in the city — Maintenance and aesthetics — Food literacy — Community health and prosperity.

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• Urban agriculture.
• Urban gardening.
• City planning — Health aspects.
• Streetscapes (Urban design)
• City planning — Health aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00862220

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-351) and index.
• 1. Reasons for Concern — Demographic Imperatives — Dietary Transitions — End of an Era? — 2. Appraising the Basics — Photosynthesis and Crop Productivity — Land, Water, and Nutrients — Agroecosystems and Biodiversity — 3. Environmental Change and Agroecosystems — Changing Soils — Environmental Pollution — What Could Climate Change Do — 4. Toward Higher Cropping Efficiencies — More Efficient Fertilization — Better Use of Water — Precision Farming — 5. Rationalizing Animal Food Production — Feeding Efficiencies and Resource Claims — Opportunities in Milk and Meat Production — Aquacultural Possibilities — 6. Consuming the Harvests — Harvests and Postharvest Losses — How Much Food Do We Have? — How Much Food Do We Eat? — 7. How Much Food Do We Need? — Human Energetics — Protein Needs — Comparisons and Implications — 8. Searching for Optimum Diets — Nutritional Transitions — Nutrition, Health, and Disease — Optimized Diets — 9. If China Could Do it… — China’s Predicament — Available Resources and Existing Inefficiencies — Realistic Solutions.
• This book differs from other books on the world food situation in its consideration of the complete food cycle, from agriculture to post-harvest losses and processing to eating and discarding. Taking a scientific approach, Smil espouses neither the catastrophic view that widespread starvation is imminent nor the cornucopian view that welcomes large population increases as the source of endless human inventiveness. He shows how we can make more effective use of current resources and suggests that if we increase farming efficiency, reduce waste, and transform our diets, future needs may not be as great as we anticipate. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• Agricultural productivity.
• Food supply.

Requested by McCaa, R.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Prologue — 1923-24 directly as a stone — 1925-29 bread and butter — 1930-35 what one has to do — 1936-39 a school in patience — 1940-42 a thousand thoughts — 1943-44 when sorrows come — 1945-46 the beautiful country — 1947-49 back where I belong — 1950-55 love made visible — Epilogue.

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• Farm life — Wisconsin — History — 20th century.
• Farm life — Middle West — History — 20th century.
• Country life — Wisconsin — History — 20th century.
• Country life — Middle West — History — 20th century.
• Rural families — Wisconsin — History — 20th century.
• Family farms — Wisconsin — History — 20th century.
• Farms, Small — Wisconsin — History — 20th century.
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
• Introduction: Countdown to the future of food — Target 2020: Soil. Table for one billion: to see our future, visit sunny India — Faster, bigger, richer, weaker : the trouble with the green revolution — The money knot: food prices, profits, and the new global food trade — Local versus industrial: the alternative economy of food — The twenty-first-century peasant: but who will brow our food? — Land as good as gold: mega-parks, mega-farms, and the global rush for farmland
• Target 2030: Seeds. Two thousand years of rice: what China knows that we don’t — The genes in our seeds: the big business of food security — Lab rice: a better seed for a hotter planet — SOS: save our seeds
• Target 2040: Culture. From home-cooked to takeout: a culture of food for the future — The terrorists to the rescue! the pope of Aligot and the French culinary resistance — Culinary biodiversity: you are what your ancestors ate — Introducing … food: the culture shift — Conclusion: Target 2050: the future.
• Sarah Elton walks fields and farms on three continents, not only investigating the very real threats to our food, but also telling the little-known stories of the people who are working against time to create a new and hopeful future.

Subjects:

• Sustainable agriculture.
• Alternative agriculture.
• Organic farming.
• Agricultural ecology.
• Food supply.

Requested by Wittenbreer, B

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• During the First and Second World Wars, food shortages reached critical levels in the Allied nations. The situation in England, which relied heavily on imports and faced German naval blockades, was particularly dire. Government campaigns were introduced in both Britain and the United States to recruit individuals to work on rural farms and to raise gardens in urban areas. These recruits were primarily women, who readily volunteered in what came to be known as Women’s Land Armies. Stirred by national propaganda campaigns and a sense of adventure, these women, eager to help in any way possible, worked tirelessly to help their nations grow victory gardens to win the war against hunger and fascism. In vacant lots, parks, backyards, between row houses, in flowerboxes, and on farms, groups of primarily urban, middle-class women cultivated vegetables along with a sense of personal pride and achievement. In Cultivating Victory, Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant presents a compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles by these wartime campaigns. As she demonstrates, the seeds of this transformation were sown years before the First World War by women suffragists and international women’s organizations. Gowdy-Wygant profiles the foundational organizations and significant individuals in Britain and America, such as Lady Gertrude Denman and Harriet Stanton Blatch, who directed the Women’s Land Armies and fought to leverage the wartime efforts of women to eventually win voting rights and garner new positions in the workforce and politics. In her original transnational history, Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through changing gender roles and women’s ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women’s Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities. — Provided by publisher.
• A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women’s Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women’s ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women’s Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• AUGSBURG COLLEGE’s copy is signed by the author.

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Requested by Bloomberg, M.