No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture Stuart Don
No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture Stuart Don America's farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Since 1980,…
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No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture Stuart Don
America's farms are key to the preservation of vital ecosystems and a stable climate. Since 1980, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been bringing people together to work for healthy land and a healthy food system.No Farms, No Food traces the development of this powerful coalition responsible for landmark achievements in farmland preservation. Yet farmers and environmentalists have not always seen eye-to-eye about the best ways to manage agricultural landscapes.
From this humble start grew a small but astute organization, and more importantly, a formidable constituency of farmers and environmentalists united around a common cause.With leadership from AFT, that constituency drove through Congress the first "Conservation Title" in the It all began with Peggy Rockefeller's determination to stop the inexorable urban sprawl that was threatening the nation's agriculture.