Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-state Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm - Couverture rigide

Ashwood, Loka; Diamond, Danielle; Franco, Allen; Imlay, Aimee; Kuehn, Lindsay

 
9781469674582: Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-state Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm
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ISBN 10 : 1469674580 ISBN 13 : 9781469674582
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws. It reveals that they generally benefit the largest operators, like processing plants, while traditional farmers benefit the least. Disfavored most of all are those seeking to defend their homes and environment against multinational corporations that use right-to-farm laws to strip neighboring owners of their property rights. Through what the book calls the "midburden," right-to-farm laws dispossess the many in favor of the few, paving the path to rural poverty.

Empty Fields, Empty Promises summarizes every state's right-to-farm laws to help readers track and navigate their local and regional legal landscape. The book concludes by offering paths forward for a more distributed and democratic agrifood system that achieves agricultural, rural, and environmental justice.

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À propos des auteurs

Loka Ashwood is associate professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky.

Aimee Imlay is assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University.

Lindsay Kuehn is a public defender in Ramsey County, Minnesota, and a staff attorney with the Farmers' Legal Action Group.

Allen Franco is an assistant federal public defender for the districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Danielle Diamond is a visiting fellow at the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469674580
ISBN 13 
9781469674582
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1469674599 ISBN 13 :  9781469674599
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2023
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