Table of Contents

PART I. Farm Bill Basics
Chapter 1. What is the Farm Bill?
Chapter 2. Why Does the Farm Bill Matter?
Chapter 3. Whom Does the Farm Bill Benefit?
Chapter 4. How Does the Farm Bill Work?
PART II. The History of Food Policy
Chapter 5. Origins of the Farm Bill
Chapter 6. The Changing Face of Agriculture
Chapter 7. The Changing Face of Hunger
Chapter 8. The Conservation Era
PART III. Key Policy Issues
Chapter 9. Crop Subsidies
Chapter 10. Nutrition, SNAP, and Healthy Eating
Chapter 11. Agribusiness versus Family Farmers
Chapter 12. Job creation
Chapter 13. Trade
Chapter 14. An Alternative System

About the Author

Dan Imhoff is the author of multiple books about the food system, including CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories (winner of the Nautilus 2011 Gold Prize for Investigative Reporting), Farming with the Wild, and Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature (with Jo Ann Baumgartner). Christina Badaracco is a registered dietitian who writes regularly about food, agriculture, and public health.

Reviews

"Daniel Imhoff's recently-published The Farm Bill: A Citizen's Guide [is] a welcome and much-needed source for translating farm bill legalese....[it is] a thorough and navigable history of the farm bill...[that] hands readers the tools to take action."-- "Foodprint"