Sustaining Rural Communities through Sustainable Agriculture [microform] / John Ikerd
- Bib ID:
- 5683938
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Ikerd, John
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED455985
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001
- 16 p.
- Summary:
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A 5-year collaborative project between Missouri, Michigan State, and Nebraska Universities to provide new opportunities for rural community self-development through sustainable agriculture had mixed results. This happened because community members did not understand the principles of sustainability, and because the extension education system was unwilling to jeopardize its close ties with existing community and agricultural leaders by working with "fringe" groups such as organic farmers, small farmers, and opponents of factory hog farms. Future efforts to promote sustainable agriculture should be funded through existing rural advocacy groups already committed to change, and should focus on teaching the principles of sustainable agriculture and development to people of rural communities. Society is in the midst of a great transition. Terms such as the "information age" and the "new economy" mistakenly attribute this transition to changes in technology, when actually, changes in thinking created these changes in technologies. This new way of thinking reflects a holistic worldview that is fundamentally different from the reductionist worldview of the industrial era, and that has its roots in quantum physics and chaos theory rather than mechanical physics and statistics. This new way of thinking is fundamentally transforming society, as people realize that sustainability is not about sacrifice, but about a quality of life that values social and ecological objectives as well as economic ones. (TD)
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- Availability: For full text: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/srs/ikerd.htm.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Rural Sociology Association (Fort Worth, TX, January 27-31, 2001).
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