Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community

by Thomas A. Lyson

Book Overview

While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community's social and economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584654147
• ISBN13: 9781584654148
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"