The current state of agriculture: Does it have a future?

The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 101-120

  Kirschenmann, Frederick ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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