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To help farmers position themselves well for the opportunities afforded by today's market, Sarah Aubrey, a successful farm-based business owner.
Helps you develop and follow up on plans to sustain your own farming business.
With entrepreneurial drive, a practical business plan, and some marketing savvy, you can run a successful small farm business that brings your products to your target audience. The demand for fresh, local, organic, naturally raised, lovingly crafted, or sustainably produced smal…
Written from the vantage point of a farmer-ecologist, The Emergent Agriculture is a fascinating conversation about the future of food. Arguing that industrial food production is incompatible with the realities of nature, science and ethics, this collection of fourteen lyrical es…
Describes how to live a self-sufficient, sustainable family life and not be dependent on modern industrial society and its emphasis on continuous consumption for survival.
This is a comprehensive, encyclopedic guide for the small-scale family farmer, the hobby farmer, or the potential farmer. They explain the basics of farming from start to finish: from planting to harvesting and farrowing to marketing. With the authors' help, you'll learn how to …
This is a comprehensive, encyclopedic guide for the small-scale family farmer, the hobby farmer, or the potential farmer. They explain the basics of farming from start to finish: from planting to harvesting and farrowing to marketing. With the authors' help, you'll learn how to …
Part of a series which treats polity-economy dialectics at global, regional and national levels and examines novel contradictions and coalitions between and within each. This book looks at small farmers, and topics covered include expanding the agricultural frontier in Peru.
This book deals with an agricultural production and marketing system known as contract farming (CF). In this system, a public or private agency purchases the crops of independent farmers through contracts, often providing inputs, technical assistance and marketing. CF has a long…
New directions for smallholder agriculture
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Arising from an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) project, this book explores the most promising innovations in technology, institutional, and policy approaches for creating additional and better farm business opportunities for smallholder farmers.