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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Charts & Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Don’t Call it the “Farm Bill,” Call it the “Food Bill”
Introduction: A Food and Farm Bill for the 21st Century
Preface: Food Democracy
Part 1: Why the Farm Bill Matters
1. We Reap What We Sow
2. Why the Farm Bill Matters
3. What Is the Farm Bill?
4. Promises Broken: The Two Lives of Every Farm Bill…
5. Where It All Started
6. Family Farms to Mega-Farms
7. The Farm Bill’s Hunger Connection
8. The Conservation Era Begins—Again
9. Freedom to Farm and the Legacy of Record Payoffs
10. The Beginnings of a Food Bill?
11. Who Gets the Money?
12. Who Will Grow Our Food?
13. The World Trade Organization and the International Community
14. New Zealand: Still Subsidy-free After All These Years
Part 2: Wedge Issues
15. Political Wedge Issues
16. Public Health and Nutrition: Building 21st Century Food Systems, Fighting Chronic Disease
17. Ethanol: Growing Food, Feed, Fiber, and Fuel?
18. Energy and Climate Change
19. Healthy Lands, Healthy People: Why Farmlands Matter to Conservation
20. National Security: Food on the Front Lines
21. The Next 50 Years: Perennialization and Ecosystem-based Agriculture
22. Local Food: The Emerging Agricultural Economy
Part 3: Turning the Tables
23. Turning the Tables
25 Ideas Whose Time Has Come
Somewhere in America’s Future…
Activist Tool Kit
Food and Farm Bill Glossary
Select Bibliography
Notes
Photography Credits
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