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Books on: family farms crisis

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American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis

Book by Peggy F. Barlett; University of North Carolina Press, 1993

Subjects:

Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Georgia--Dodge County, Dodge County (Ga.)--Rural Conditions, Family Farms--Georgia--Dodge County

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...F., 1947- American dreams, rural realities : family farms in crisis/ Peggy F. Barlett. p. cm. -- Studies in rural...ISBN 0-8078-4399-7 pbk. : alk. paper 1. Family farms -- Georgia -- Dodge County. 2. Agriculture...
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Families on Small Farms: Case Studies in Human Ecology

Book by M. Suzanne Sontag, Margaret M. Bubolz; Michigan State University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Family Farms--Michigan--Case Studies, Farm Life--Michigan--Case Studies, Farmers--Michigan--Social Conditions, Michigan--Rural Conditions--Case Studies, Rural Families--Michigan--Social Conditions

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...by what is called the farm crisis. During this period...indebted, lost their farms through foreclosures...productivity of American farms, inflation, national...belief in the family farm has remained relatively...Preservation of the family farm has been an ideal of individual families and of our society...
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Partners in Production? Women, Farm, and Family in Ireland

Book by Patricia O'Hara; Berghahn Books, 1998

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Family Farms--Ireland, Ireland--Rural Conditions, Women In Agriculture--Ireland

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...commitment on the part of male farm owners there to maintaining...larger, more commercial farms. The pattern of home...but is also related to farm wives involvement in...the construction of new family homes in joint ownership...symbolic detachment of family from farm, particularly...on women at points of crisis, or may structure the...
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Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm

Book by Richard A. Levins; University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Subjects:

Agricultural Economists--United States--Biography, Agricultural Subsidies--United States--History, Agriculture And State--United States--History, Agriculture--Economic Aspects--United States--History, Cochrane, Willard Wesley--1914-, Family Farms--Government Policy--United States--History, Farmers--United States--Economic Conditions

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...the inevitable loss of family farms seemed to them like a...costs. Only a financial crisis of major proportions...heroic mission to save the family farm. He could expect little...know exactly how the family farm should be saved...
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Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico

Book by Tom Barry; South End Press, 1995

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Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Mexico, Free Trade--Mexico, Land Reform--Mexico, Peasantry--Mexico

Collections: History, Entire Library

...in the deterioration of the family farm economy. Reduced Farm...Mexico has dramatically reduced farm subsidies and public-sector...of agriculture, making its farm sector less competitive in the...impoverishment is deepening. Down on the Farm, Up with Agroindustry At the...traditional vision of family farms and local markets. In all farm...

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Journal Articles on: family farms crisis

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Farm Couples and Crisis Politics: the Importance of Household, Spouse, and Gender in Responding to Economic Decline

Journal article by Katherine Meyer, Linda Labao; Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 59, 1997

Subjects:

Couples, Economic conditions, Farmers, Hypotheses, Politics, Sexes, Social research

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Farm Couples and Crisis Politics: the Importance...economic and social crises (Voydanoff, 1990...affect micro-level family behavior, the reverse...difficulty. The farm crisis of the 1980s provides...Research on managing crises, including those of farm families during the 1980s, focuses...
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Farm Family Coping with Stress: The Impact of the 1998 Ice Storm

Journal article by Lee-Ann Sutherland, Tony Glendinning; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 39, 2008

Subjects:

Family farms--Environmental aspects, Family farms--Social aspects, Family--Finance, Family--Health aspects, Ice storms--Canada, Ice storms--Health aspects, Ice storms--Social aspects

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...moves families into crisis. The finding that the...institutions during times of crisis. However, the inability...Resilience Model of Family Stress also highlights...circumstances in which farm families found themselves during...consequent losses to the farm determined ongoing stress...after the event. Dairy farms may have been most at...coping with an acute crisis in addition to chronic...
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Gendered Work in Family Farm Tourism

Journal article by Berit Brandth, Marit S. Haugen; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 38, 2007

Subjects:

Family farms--Evaluation, Family farms--Human resource management, Sexism--Influence

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...that is based on the farms and the persons who live on the farms. Without the farms and the outlying fields...on the location of the farm being attractive to visitors...the farm and running a family based business are motives...diversification and agricultural crisis are important forces...
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Marriage and Family Consultation with Ranch and Farm Families: an Empirical Family Case Study

Journal article by Robert J. Fetsch, Toni S. Zimmerman; Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Vol. 25, 1999

Subjects:

Families & family life, Family counseling, Farmers, Marriage counseling, Ranches

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...1994). During the farm crisis in the mid 1980s...worked with 15 farm families who traveled...continued to damage the family despite their newly...resources. The farm families reported themselves...the ranches and farms or at least to rural...sustained positive family functioning. Thus...therapists working with farm and ranch families. Marriage and family...
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Family Stressor Events, Family Coping, and Adolescent Adaptation in Farm and Ranch Families

Journal article by Scott W. Plunkett, Carolyn S. Henry, Patricia K. Knaub; Adolescence, Vol. 34, 1999

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Adjustment (Psychology) in adolescence--Research, Rural families--Psychological aspects, Stress in adolescence--Research, Teenagers--Family

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...did males). Family Stressor Events...reported their families as being slightly...affected by the farm crisis, and this...of perceived family stress. This...1987). Farm families in crisis: An application...theory to farm family research...

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Magazine Articles on: family farms crisis

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The Last Farm Crisis

Magazine article by William Greider; The Nation, Vol. 271, November 20, 2000

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Agricultural industry--Economic aspects, Farms--Economic aspects

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The Last Farm Crisis. by William Greider...with food security or family farmers. Its all about...take on this new farm crisis is a tearjerk feature...the pathos of farm families, widespread though...demoralized by recurring crises during the past twenty...more than saving the family farm. Its purpose...quality, that moves farm economics away from...possible if smaller farms survive. Their report...
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Daher's Vineyard: a Bethlehem Christian Family Struggles to Keep the Family Farm

Magazine article by Fred Strickert; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 23, January 2004

Subjects:

Agriculture, Families & family life, Farming, International, International relations, Israel, Landowners, Palestinian territories, Palestinians, Politics, Territorial issues, Wineries & vineyards

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Court has in fact granted the family an additional 45 days to present...presents a dilemma for the family. The expert testimony and...at a time when Palestinian families are facing economic crisis. Yet for a family facing the possible loss of...
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Don't Be Down on the Farm

Magazine article by Byron L. Dorgan; Washington Monthly, January 2000

Subjects:

Agricultural industry--Economic aspects, Family farms--Laws, regulations, etc., United States. Department of Agriculture--Laws, regulations, etc., United States--Agricultural policy

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Dont Be Down On The Farm by Byron L. Dorgan What we...unusual to American eyes. Family-based agriculture is thriving...dotted with small, prosperous farms, and the communities these...that Europe encourages its family-scale agriculture, while...representatives were talking about families and communities, while the...dollar. In this setting, farm auctions have become a grim...
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Getting Fresh with Farm-to-school Programs

Magazine article by Marion Kalb; Green Teacher, Winter 2006

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Agriculture, Dairy products, Diet, Families & family life, Farmers, Farms, Food programs, Greenhouse gases, Learning, Nonprofit organizations, Parents & parenting, School lunches, Students

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...epidemic proportions, family farming is facing its own crisis. Of all occupations...declared the number of family farms "statistically...and 2001 the number of farms dropped by 11 percent...agribusiness, many family farmers find themselves...their land to feed their families. While a wide range...address these issues, farm-to-school food programs...
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Farm Women Take Action on Mental Health Needs

Magazine article by Sharon Fletcher; Women and Environments, Spring 1996

Subjects:

Agriculture, Care & treatment, Country life, Families & family life, Farming, Mental health, Mentally ill, Ontario Canada, Ontario Farm Women's Network, Ontario Farm Womens Network-Canada, Organizations, Women, Women's organizations

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...Fletcher The Ontario Farm Womens Network (OFWN...group linking many farm womens organizations...industry and active family farms. MENTAL HEALTH OF FARM FAMILIES In.1991 the OFWN...the impact of the crisis in the agricultural...

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Newspaper Articles on: family farms crisis

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OUTRAGE AS FOOD PRICES HIT NEW RECORD; Scots Families Face Biggest Rises in Britain; Scots Farms Crisis Raises Food Prices

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 11, 2009

Subjects:

Agriculture--Prices and rates, Farms--Prices and rates, Food prices, Food--Prices and rates, Livestock, Livestock industry, Pork industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PRICES HIT NEW RECORD; Scots Families Face Biggest Rises in Britain; Scots Farms Crisis Raises Food Prices. Byline...Scottish Political Reporter FAMILIES face a crippling rise in...and shepherds and their families, and that starts to have...
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OUTRAGE AS FOOD PRICES HIT NEW RECORD; Scots Families Face Biggest Rises in Britain; Scots Farms Crisis Raises Food Prices

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 11, 2009

Subjects:

Agriculture--Prices and rates, Farms--Prices and rates, Food prices, Food--Prices and rates, Livestock, Livestock industry, Pork industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PRICES HIT NEW RECORD; Scots Families Face Biggest Rises in Britain; Scots Farms Crisis Raises Food Prices. Byline...Scottish Political Reporter FAMILIES face a crippling rise in...and shepherds and their families, and that starts to have...
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Farms Terror Fears of Family; Ulster Relatives Caught Up in Zimbabwe Crisis

Newspaper article by Ross Mckee; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), April 20, 2000

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Zimbabwe

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Farms Terror Fears of Family; Ulster Relatives Caught Up in Zimbabwe Crisis. by ROSS McKEE ULSTER...raped yesterday on a farm south of the countrys...repercussions. A lot of the farms around them in the...followers to leave the farms. The local man said...
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Family Live in Fear of Losing Farm and Home; THOUSANDS of Farmers Will Converge on Stormont Today to Drive Home the Gravity of the Crisis Facing Northern Ireland's Biggest Industry. Assembly Members, Who Will Debate the Issue, Are Already Aware That Farmers' Incomes Have Been Slashed by Up to 80 per Cent. Hundreds of Farmers Are Staring Bankruptcy in the Face. Today LISA McALISTER Highlights the Plight of One Victim

Newspaper article by Lisa Mcalister; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), February 1, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Home the Gravity of the Crisis Facing Northern Irelands...home and business. The farm is no longer the vibrant...made goes back into the farm Our sole occupation...have to help keep the farm afloat. It is the case on many family farms, such as ours, that...sixth generation of my family to live on this farm...either ourselves or our families down, he said. Michael...
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Dairy Farms Cry Foul over Split Milk Fund; CRISIS PAYMENTS WILL FAVOUR BIGGER UNITS

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 9, 2010

Subjects:

Agricultural associations, Agricultural societies, Dairy farmers, Dairy farming, Dairy farms, Dairy industry, Dairy products industry, Milk

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Dairy Farms Cry Foul over Split Milk Fund; CRISIS PAYMENTS WILL FAVOUR BIGGER UNITS...the face" for Waless smaller family farms. He said: "My main concern...regarding Cardiffs support for smaller family farms." Last November the EC...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: family farms crisis

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Cuba

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...missiles (see Cuban Missile Crisis ). Cubas relations with other...transformation of many state farms into semiautonomous cooperatives...private cooperatives and family farms and those intended to increase...1920); E. Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966); R. R. Fagen, The...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...land was in collective farms (the system of state farms was established successfully...attitudes toward culture: family life was emphasized...supervising the collective farms by controlling their use of farm machinery, were abolished...a number of "Berlin crises," particularly the...The Cuban Missile Crisis In Oct., 1962, despite...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...laws, some of them to meet the economic crisis with relief measures, others to put into...the threat of a devastating world food crisis. Fords popularity suffered a sharp setback...taking 66 hostages. The Iran hostage crisis destroyed Carters credibility as a leader...
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Jordan , Country, Asia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...land is arable, and farm output is further limited...the small size of most farms, inefficient methods...be hereditary in the family of Abdullah I, who was...Kingdom of Transjordan. Crisis and Conflict By an agreement...and following the Suez crisis later in the year he...declared in Jordan. The crisis ended only after the...
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Korea

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...permitting visits between families long divided as a result...facilities were rebuilt. Farms were collectivized, and...experienced a financial crisis in late 1997, forcing...involved the presidents family. The government suffered...

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