Feeding the world as if people mattered : how small farms produce value beyond yields / Andrew Flachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flachs, Andrew, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farms, Small.

Agriculture--Social aspects.

Agriculture.

Agriculture, Cooperative.

Agricultural ecology.

Physical Description:

xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2026.

Summary:

"This book encourages readers to think past yields and profits to consider everything else that grows from a small farm. By exploring community relationships, biodiversity, and rural diversification, this book shifts the conversation around feeding the world away from a misleading discussion about producing goods at scale and toward an appreciation of the profound social and ecological benefits that farms can offer life on Earth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rethinking productivity

Agrarian economics as if people mattered: agriculture and social reproduction

How plantations and factory farms made social reproduction invisible

Making organic agriculture work by growing community in south India

Growing a garden to have something to share in Bosnia

Deciding what belongs in the Midwest farm economy

Malthus is still wrong (and five other objections)

Feeding the world as if people mattered.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-303) and index.

Other Format:

Online version Flachs, Andrew Feeding the world as if people mattered

ISBN:

9780816556779

0816556776

9780816556762

0816556768

OCLC:

1533885287