Books

Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development

Edited by Seglinde Snapp and Barry Pound

Farm Basics of Direct Marketing

If you want a short and sweet course that gives you an overview of your options to direct market from the farm this is it. Just 12 pages long, yet covers a whole bunch of important things to consider to make your project successful.

Farm Basics of Direct Marketing

If you want a short and sweet course that gives you an overview of your options to direct market from the farm this is it. Just 12 pages long, yet covers a whole bunch of important things to consider to make your project successful.

Farming in the Dark: A Discussion About the Future of Sustainable Agriculture

Why have so many farmers in sustainable agriculture had to take day jobs to support their farms and families? What can they do to create a more successful future?

From the Farm to the Table

From the Farm to the Table describes many aspects of the current farm situation as the author, Gary Holthaus, sees them. He views America’s farms as the nucleus of an expanding set of circles that become the context in which farmers and consumers of food, rural and urban, must work and live.

GUIDEBOOK FOR SMALL MEAT PROCESSING PLANTS

The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD) recently released the Iowa Meat Processors' Resource Guidebook

Hot, Flat and Crowded

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.