1st Edition

Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community

Edited By Lionel J. "Bo" Beaulieu, Jeffrey Jordan Copyright 2013
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives. It provides lessons learned, first, from the community development literature that can help shape sustainable agriculture strategies, and second, from the sustainable agriculture literature... Read more

1. Introduction  Lionel J. Beaulieu and Jeffrey L. Jordan  2. Linking Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development: The Lowcountry Food Bank's Use of Locally Grown Foods  Kenneth L. Robinson, Kathleen K. Robinson, Carlos Carpio and David Hughes  3. Connecting Sustainable Agriculture to Rural Development: The Case of Pasture-Based Dairy Grazing  Lois Wright Morton and Leah Miller  4. Food System Makers: Motivational Frames for Catalyzing Agri-Food Development through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration  Wynne Wright, Michael Score and David S. Conner  5. Options for the Economic Health of Farmers, Farmers Markets and Communities: Homebased Fruit and Vegetable Microprocessing  Sandra Bastin  6. Small Farm Clusters and Pathways to Rural Community Sustainability  Kathryn J. Brasier, Stephan Goetz, Lindsay A. Smith, Molly Ames, Joanna Green, Tim Kelsey, Anu Rangarajan and Walt Whitmer  7. Linking Small Farms to Rural Communities with Local Food: A Case Study of the Local Food Project in Fairbury, Illinois  S.A. Hultine, L.R. Cooperband, M.P. Curry and S. Gasteyer

Biography

Lionel J. Beaulieu is Director of the Southern Rural Development Center and Professor of Rural Sociology in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University.

Jeffrey L. Jordan is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia and Director, of the Southern Region USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (S-SARE) Program.