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National policy options and strategies to encourage sustainable agriculture: Lessons from the 1990 farm bill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

Kathleen Merrigan
Kathleen Merrigan
Affiliation:
Doctoral student, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
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Extract

History is the greatest teacher of all. As a first step in determining policy options and strategies to encourage sustainable agriculture we should look back and evaluate the past. A review of the 1990 farm bill debate provides six important lessons to guide our future efforts in sustainable agriculture. These lessons can be spelled out this way: Representation; Exhaustion; Frustration, Organization; Retirement; and Mistakes — in sum, REFORM.

Type
Papers from the 10th Annual Conference of the Wallace Institute, “Alternative Agriculture Policy: A New Time to Choose,” Washington, D.C., March 1,1993
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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 158 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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