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A Green New Deal For Agriculture: The American Farm Bureau and the Demobilization of the American Farmer
Description
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is an organization promoting itself as "The National Voice of American Agriculture." However, small independent family farmers are losing their livlihoods, having their rural communities destroyed, and are suffering from mental illness due to the covert actions of the AFBF. In reality, the AFBF is a national advocate for agricultural conglomerates and industrial agriculture practice. The AFBF drives the American agribusiness sector and demobilizes small farmer mobilization for any iteration of a modern and sustainable agricultural revolution. This thesis seeks to evaluate the ways in which the Farm Bureau demobilizes farmers in their ideology, education, and activism and seeks to recommend effective ways challenge the American Farm Bureau in pursuit of an agriculturally just Green New Deal (GND). A GND for agriculture emphasizes the need for independent family farmers and ensuing components of sustainability, regenerative practice, and an integrated, healthy food system.
Date Created
2020-12
Contributors
- Raderstorf, Alia Mcpherson (Author)
- Fong, Benjamin (Thesis director)
- Calhoun, Craig (Committee member)
- School of Sustainable Engineering & Built Envirnmt (Contributor)
- School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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Extent
72 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Series
Academic Year 2020-2021
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62474
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minimal
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- 2020-11-13 11:24:42
System Modified
- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 2 months ago
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