Title Organic struggle : the movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States / Brian K. Obach.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource (327 pages).
Series	Food, health, and the environment
	Food, health, and the environment.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	The birth of the organic movement -- Certification and the state: the dilemmas of growth -- The organic coalition: united and divided -- Are we better off? Movement achievements and the threat from big organic -- Searching for social justice -- Strategic innovation: the three trajectories of the organic movement -- The road not taken and the road ahead.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	'Organic Struggle' analyzes the evolution of the sustainable agriculture movement in the United States and evaluates its achievements and shortcomings. It traces the development of organic farming from its roots in the 1940s through its embrace by the 1960s counterculture to its mainstream acceptance and development into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Subject	Organic farming -- United States.
	Sustainable agriculture -- United States.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
	SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
	Organic farming. (OCoLC)fst01047688
	Sustainable agriculture. (OCoLC)fst01139712
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indexed Term	ENVIRONMENT/General
	SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
	ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Title	Movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States
Other Form:	Print version: Obach, Brian K. (Brian Keith). Organic struggle 9780262029094 (DLC) 2014042768 (OCoLC)896954029
ISBN	9780262328302 (electronic bk.)
	0262328305 (electronic bk.)

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