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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 618–619.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Mark D. Hersey Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840–1860 . By Sam Bowers Hilliard . 1972 . Reprint. Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2014 . 312 pp., $28.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-82034676-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the environment that encompasses everyone in the region, from Boston to the Berkshires and beyond. Gregory Nobles Georgia Institute of Technology The Politics of Food Supply: US Agricultural Policy in the World Economy. By Bill Winders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Peter Fraunholtz Abstract The Russian provisional government and Bolshevik regime, in their respective efforts to address and resolve the food-supply crisis of 1917–19, sought to modernize state-village relations and mobilize peasant-citizens to contribute to the task according to their ability...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 393–408.
Published: 01 October 2005
... and supplies of food. Since about 1930, the trend toward centralization, standardization, and specialization has discouraged local production in food, as it has discouraged local and regional production in other industries. This essay considers how this process occurred in perhaps the most archetypical...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 467–468.
Published: 01 July 2014
... to keep up an empire-wide food supply. The Korean population for the 467 Agricultural History Summer first time experienced rationing, an emphasis on frugality, and the authorities suggestion of an alternative dietary regimen. Despite Japan s capitulation in 1945, this wartime experience repeated...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 470–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
... to the creation of export subsidies, international food aid, and grain reserves to alleviate surpluses. 6 After World War II, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) facilitated the global expansion of supply management policy by allowing countries to use price supports, production controls...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 April 2007
.... The integrating theme of this book, therefore, is the relationship that has evolved between town and country, mediated through the supply of food. It presents an examination of the complexities in that relationship and how they have changed over the last two centuries. The collection derives from the Sixth...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 470–472.
Published: 01 October 2006
... outgoing US Secretary of Health and Human ServicesTommyThompsondeclaringpubliclyin December 2004:"Forthe life of me, I cannot understandwhy the terrorists have not attackedour food supply,because it is so easy to do."MountingUS reliance on food imports with inspectors able to screen only 1-2 percent...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 328–350.
Published: 01 July 2018
... ), Folder 84G,13, MAUC. 31. For these women, this involvement initially meant cultivating personal plots near mine encampments and using the yields to feed themselves and their families; Cleveland , Diamonds in the Rough , 113 . 32. Diamang also worked to bolster the food supply...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Bartow J. Elmore Abstract Digging deep into the history of phosphate mining, this article engages contemporary debates about the environmental sustainability of using Roundup to produce our food by focusing on the front end rather than the back end of the product’s life cycle. Though many people...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 January 2016
... for the north (9). Southern farmers did well in the first year, increasing their acreage and production of corn, wheat, and potatoes, providing adequate food supplies, and making plenty of money in the process. But price increases by the end of 1861 began to indicate growing shortages. despite constant calls...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 448–449.
Published: 01 July 2018
... would allow Germany to achieve a secure food supply and a healthier population. They found enthusiastic supporters in the Nazi regime, and the desire to achieve a natural food supply was integral to Nazi war planning. As food scarcity ended with Germany s post World War II revival, the debate over...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to the Berkshires and beyond. Gregory Nobles Georgia Institute of Technology The Politics of Food Supply: US Agricultural Policy in the World Economy. By Bill Winders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-13924-2. In The Politics of Food Supply, Bill Winders offers his...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 449–451.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... With this goal in mind, natural diet reformers argued that their theories would allow Germany to achieve a secure food supply and a healthier population. They found enthusiastic supporters in the Nazi regime, and the desire to achieve a natural food supply was integral to Nazi war planning. As food scarcity...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 January 2008
... quality of our food. Before intensive agriculture, Ayerza and Coates insist, the human diet was balanced in the essential omega-6 and omega-3 fattyacids through a diverse food supply. Changes, especially in animal feeding practices-from grazing on grasses rich inboth fatty acids to corn-feed operations...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 617–618.
Published: 01 October 2015
... masterfully. Tina Stewart Brakebill Illinois State University Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840 1860. By Sam Bowers Hilliard. 1972. Reprint. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. 312 pp., $28.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-82034676-2. Like most truly prescient works, James C. Cobb...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
...” ; Zachmann, Risky Rays for an Improved Food Supply? 4. Oatsvall, “Atomic Agriculture” ; Oatsvall, Atomic Environments . 5. Curry, Evolution Made to Order . 6. Rentetzi and Germanese, “Science Diplomacy on Display” ; Mateos and Suárez-Díaz, “Development Interventions...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 266–267.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Sara Gregg Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods . Thomas Rain Crowe . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring velopment of the tin can, and the invention of large ironclad ships have all had impacts on food supply and dietary habits...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 January 2009
... to Protect the Poor from Soaring Food Prices," http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000733/index.html (accessed Aug. 19, 2008) Elisabeth Rosenthal, "World Food Supply is Shrinking, UN Agency Warns," New York Times, Dec. 18, 2007, C-5 Martin, "The Price of Growing Fuel" Andrew Martin...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 545–546.
Published: 01 July 2021
... digested and accessible book, Rees guides the reader through the complexities of modern food production and the global food chain. He describes how consumers have become increasingly distanced from the source of their food supply, a situation that has increased anxiety in the marketplace. Rees outlines...