"Civic agriculture is a locally organized system of agriculture and food production characterized by
networks of producers who are bound together by PLACE." -TA Lyson
TERROIR: natural + social terroir + my version of "individual terroir" at the top of self-realization?
"The imperative to earn a profit is filtered through a set of cooperative and mutually supporting
social relations." -TA Lyson
Kind of like the Danish welfare state(?) where people pay high taxes in order to gain services from the government and are generally satisfied
Cooperative Extension
primary educational outreach organization for farmers
Still focused on the "individual" more than the "community"
HISTORY
Agricultural Industrialization
left unabated since 1920s, esp. after WWII (1939-1945)
with left-over chemicals to use for fertilizers
CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE
Based on neoclassical theory of economics
relates supply and demand to an individual's rationality and his ability to maximize utility or profit