Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in CaliforniaUniversity of California Press, 2004年8月4日 - 250 頁 "Agrarian Dreams throws a cold shower of reality over the dream of organic agriculture in California, demonstrating all that is lost when organic farming goes industrial. This is a challenging book, and until we can answer the hard questions Julie Guthman poses, a genuinely sustainable agriculture will elude us."—Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World "Agrarian Dreams puts organic agriculture in a broad intellectual, social, and theoretical context in a readable way. Nobody has written at this scale and scope about organics. The availability of this basic data and interpretation will open discussion to a broad range of citizens, scholars, and decision makers. This is an outstanding work."—Sally K. Fairfax, Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy, University of California, Berkeley "Guthman takes on the sacred cow of organic agriculture: that farmers and consumers can transform our food system simply through by adopting new philosophies of eating, farming and nature. With an analysis that is at the forefront of agrarian theory today, she shows that organic farmers, no matter what their philosophy, have to work under the economic gun of markets and land prices. As a result, organic growers in California are forced to become increasingly industrialized, unjust and unhealthy. Her analysis is proof that it will take more than new kinds of thinking to create sustainability in our food system."—Melanie DuPuis, author of Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink |
內容
Agrarian Dreams | 1 |
Roads to Organic Production | 23 |
Ideal Practices and Practical Ideals | 42 |
Agronomic Practices Ratings by Grower Type 199899 | 48 |
Labor Practices by Grower Type 199899 | 55 |
Californias AgroIndustrial Legacy | 61 |
California Crop Regime Highlights | 70 |
Top Fifteen California Crops at Key Points | 72 |
Interviewed Growers by Certifier 199899 | 144 |
Reasons Given for Conversion to Organic Production 25 | 149 |
The Agrarian Answer? | 172 |
Appendix | 187 |
Notes | 199 |
48 | 208 |
Glossary | 219 |
227 | |
California Crop Values by Sector | 81 |
A Geography of Organic Production | 89 |
Study Regions | 94 |
Typical Growers in Selected Study Regions | 95 |
Organic Certifications in California by Certifying Agency 199798 | 104 |
From Social Movement | 110 |
Organic Regulation Ramified | 141 |
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