Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm (Our Sustainable Future) - Softcover

Levins, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803280262 ISBN 13: 9780803280267

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2003

Synopsis

Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He became one of the country’s premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty long years, he held to the principles while traditional agriculture faded into what he once called “family farms in form but not in spirit.”

This book is about the spirit of family farming: Thomas Jefferson’s dream of an agrarian democracy. What should we do in the face of globalization, high technology, and corporate control of our food supply? Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm recounts how one man faced these issues and where he would wish us to go in the twenty-first century.

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From the Inside Flap:

Quality of Communication Award sponsored by the American Agricultural Economics Association

"Packed in this small book is a warm and entertaining biography of one of the great living icons of agricultural economics and lifelong champion of the family farm."—Leopold Letter.

"Levins’s prose is clear and blessedly free of jargon. . . . It is wonderfully evocative when [he] intersperses sections on Cochrane’s ideas for protecting family farms with others on the increasing ability of agribusiness to exploit such farms."—ISIS.

Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He became one of the country’s premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty long years, he held to the principles while traditional agriculture faded into what he once called "family farms in form but not in spirit."

This book is about the spirit of family farming: Thomas Jefferson’s dream of an agrarian democracy. What should we do in the face of globalization, high technology, and corporate control of our food supply? Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm recounts how one man faced these issues and where he would wish us to go in the twenty-first century.

About the Author:

Richard A. Levins is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota. He wrote the foreword to Cochrane’s book The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance: A Sustainable Solution.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0803280262
• ISBN 13: 9780803280267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96