Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled ......
The Transformation of Australia's Farming Communities
On the land and in country towns the battle to survive goes on forever. The world needs foodstuffs and textiles but squeezes out the communities which provide them. Young people leave, farmers sell up, towns die, football teams combine, communities keep reinventing themselves.
Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa-all for the dream of becoming a farmer, to put into practice ......
Cannabis Careers: The Insider's Guide to a Budding Industry is a comprehensive resource for individuals interested in entering the rapidly growing cannabis industry. This book provides an accessible introduction to key cannabis topics, including history and culture, to equip readers with essential knowledge. The cannabis industry is expanding ......
Introduction to Agricultural Economics presents students with a systematic introduction to essential economic concepts and issues within agriculture, reflecting on how microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shape production, marketing, and consumption of food and fiber products. The scope of the book extends beyond traditional farm management to ......
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana Previously ranked among the hemisphere's poorest countries, Guyana is now on the brink of becoming the global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform ......
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana Previously ranked among the hemisphere's poorest countries, Guyana is now on the brink of becoming the global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform ......
