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Differing Visions of Agriculture: Industrial‐Chemical vs. Small Farm and Urban Organic Production

Heather Gray, K. Rashid Nuri

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

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This paper argues that industrial-chemical agriculture has abandoned the foundations of healthy agriculture, such as seed diversity and soil preservation, replacing them with genetically uniform crops. In contrast, it states that in the United States, small farms and urban agriculture are providing healthy food and reconnecting city dwellers with the life of the soil.