Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm (Rural Studies Series) - Tapa dura

Imlay, Aimee; Kuehn, Lindsay; Ashwood, Loka

 
9781469674582: Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm (Rural Studies Series)
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ISBN 10: 1469674580 ISBN 13: 9781469674582
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Sinopsis

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

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

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

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.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1469674580
ISBN 13 
9781469674582
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
300
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