List of Illustrations
Foreword by John K. Hansen
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Food System Imperiled
Jane W. Gibson
1. Power, Food, and Agriculture: Implications for Farmers, Consumers, and Communities
Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance
2. Chickenizing American Farmers
Donald D. Stull
3. Industrial Chicken Meat and the Good Life in Bolivia
Sarah Kollnig
4. Automating Agriculture: Precision Technologies, Agbots, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Jane W. Gibson
5. Water to Wine: Industrial Agriculture and Groundwater Regulation in California
Casey Walsh
6. Forecasting the Challenges of Climate Change for West Texas Wheat Farmers
Sara E. Alexander
7. From Partner to Consumer: The Changing Role of Farmers in the Public Agricultural Research Process on the Canadian Prairies
Katherine Strand
8. Transmission of the Brazil Model of Industrial Soybean Production: A Comparative Study of Two Migrant Farming Communities in the Brazilian Cerrado
Andrew Ofstehage
9. The Price of Success: Population Decline and Community Transformation in Western Kansas
Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. Gray
10. An Alternative Future for Food and Farming
John Ikerd
List of Contributors
Index
Jane W. Gibson is an associate professor of
anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sara E.
Alexander is a professor of anthropology at Baylor
University. John K. Hansen is president of the Nebraska
Farmers Union and chairman of the Legislative Committee for the
National Farmers Union. He serves on the National Farmers Union
Executive Committee.
“Valuable for food system leaders and policy-makers and in graduate
seminars. . . . [Analyses] highlight unsustainable methods and
suggest improvements that could serve as a starting point for
dialogues and decisions on changing the food system
framework.”-Stacey F. Stearns, Journal of Agriculture, Food
Systems, and Community Development
"In Defense of Farmers delivers a timely contribution to
helping us better understand how we got to the corporate-hijacked
food system we have today and how farm managers navigate this
framework as they simultaneously promote and resist it. This edited
volume is sharp in its critique while careful in its delivery,
making it an important book for both scholars in the humanities and
practitioners in the agricultural sciences. Through its successful
disciplinary bridging, certainly contributing to its considerate
tone, In Defense of Farmers will prove a useful foundation for
practical conversations about the future of food
production."-Nicole Welk-Joerger, H-Environment "In Defense of
Farmers provides a solid overview of the current moment in
industrialized agriculture and its human costs."-Megan
Birk, New Mexico Historical Review “Feeding the world’s
population in a sustainable manner is a topic of critical
importance for all humankind. Those of us living in the developed
world need to be cognizant of the perils of the industrialized
model of agricultural production and the consequences of its
adoption around the world. . . . Farmers’ voices are rarely heard,
but this book now allows them to be heard with respect to the
challenges of groundwater depletion, ‘big chicken,’ climate change,
or the consequences of adopting new precision farming
technologies.”-Michael J. Broadway, professor of geography at
Northern Michigan University and coauthor of Slaughterhouse Blues:
The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America “In Defense of
Farmers is critical from the empirical standpoint of those
disturbing processes that have taken us to a standardized place
where too few corporate actors make too many decisions about what
we eat, where we eat it, and who reaps food production’s benefits
while others bear the costs of compromising animal welfare, the
environment, and the quality of food. Gibson and Alexander have
assembled an impressive, interdisciplinary volume of authors who
know their subjects so well that their disgust at capital
concentration, environmental destruction, and routine violations of
human and animal rights is palpable.”-David Griffith,
professor of anthropology at East Carolina University and author of
American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor
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