Front Cover -- From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The Agricultural "Economy -- CHAPTER 2 Economics and the Self-Interested Individual -- CHAPTER 3 Community and the...

Examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption. With examples from Puerto Rico to Oregon to Quebec, this work offers a North American perspective attuned to trends toward globalization at the level of markets and governance and...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: Dust to Dust: An Age Beyond Extremes -- Two: The First Global Environmental Problem -- Three: Imperialism, White Settler Colonialism, and the Ecological Rift -- Four: The White Man's Burden, Soil...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Natural Environment -- Chapter 2 The Political and Military Environment -- Chapter 3 The Rural Economy -- Chapter 4 The Seigneury -- Chapter 5 Institutions of Local Governance --...

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. This volume discusses potential developments in urban (and rural) policy and planning which need to...

The discourse on alternative agrifood movements / Douglas H. Constance [and others] -- Divergence and convergence in alternative agrifood movements : seeking a path forward / Patricia Allen -- Alternative agrifood movements and social change / Marie-Christine Renard -- Building alliances for...