Social scientists have a long history of concern with the effects of industrialized farming on
communities. Recently, the topic has taken on new importance as corporate farming laws in …

In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a
substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins …

Agritourism—visiting a working farm for education or recreation—may serve as a tool to
increase local food consumption as it often includes opportunities to purchase local food on …

Agricultural systems are embedded in wider social-ecological processes that must be
considered in any complete discussion of sustainable agriculture. Just as climatic profiles …

Farm viability poses a grave challenge to the sustainability of agriculture and food systems:
the number of acres in production continues to decline as the majority of farms earn negative …

Novel investment vehicles continue to dominate discussions of the financial entities driving
the global land rush. However, less attention has been devoted to the mundane elements of …

Given the strong economic disincentives that exist, why do cooperatives continue to
emerge? And why is it that, in some communities, these cooperatives are collocated with …

In recent decades, the responsibility for initiating regeneration programmes has been placed
firmly in the hands of rural communities, with the rationale being that local people are best …

Academic interest in food has increased over the last decade with heated debates over
organic agriculture, local food, and the globalization of the food economy. While much of this …

Highlights•US farm policy aimed to be a social contract between (white, male, landed)
farmers and non-farmers.•This eroded, erasing the crisis of commodity crop overproduction.• …