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Farmer and non-farmer responsibility to each other: Negotiating the social contracts and public good of agriculture

If farmers expect society to help protect them against the crushing effect of surpluses, they must be prepared to protect society by working out permanent arrangements for storing of reserve food supplies. Both farmers and non-farmers have a responsibility to each other, and any dodging of this resp...

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Autor principal: Graddy-Lovelace, Garrett
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32901171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.044
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Sumario:If farmers expect society to help protect them against the crushing effect of surpluses, they must be prepared to protect society by working out permanent arrangements for storing of reserve food supplies. Both farmers and non-farmers have a responsibility to each other, and any dodging of this responsibility by either group is likely to end in disaster. — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace (1936a, 1936b:14).