Agricultural production involves the scaling of agricultural innovations such as disease-
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Soil health practices—such as cover cropping, crop rotation, and conservation tillage—
provide synergistic environmental and economic benefits, both on and beyond the farms that …

Disparities in food access and the resulting inequities in food security are persistent
problems in cities across the United States. The nation's capital is no exception. The District …

We describe how the set of tools, practices, and social relations known as “precision
agriculture” is defined, promoted, and debated. To do so, we perform a critical discourse …

Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive
theorisation of the concept of the'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of …

This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world
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The aim of this paper is to contribute towards emergent debates on the 'quality'of
multifunctional trajectories in rural development. The focus will be placed on the local rural …

In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of'multifunctionality'has remained
under-theorized and poorly linked to the debates in the social sciences. This book analyses …

Building on normative conceptualisations of multifunctionality as a decision-making
spectrum bounded by productivist and non-productivist action and thought, this paper …

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