There is a popular myth circling the media, which is that farms are now large corporations that care only about profit and not the product. However, that is far from the truth. According to Ag Web, an extension from the Farm Journal, 87 percent of the 2.2 million farms are owned by an individual or married couple. Another myth that recently gained momentum is that Americans would drastically improve the environment if they consumed less meat. The argument behind this is that it would free land from crop production going to livestock, and could then be supplemented to feed people overseas. What they fail to account for is that over half the land in America is strictly grazing land which is not suitable for crop production, but instead, livestock.
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Floor Brouwer, a senior research scholar at Wageningen University, specializing in natural resources and agriculture, made valuable edits to the book, Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment: Governance, Policy and …show more content…
Once that is established, the book moves toward how those policies, and their multifunctionality, play a role in agriculture especially in rural America. The book includes case studies, deign examples, and definitions. These supplemented learning tools helped break the book up into more tolerable segments. The majority of the book is in fact a review of how these multifunctionalities may be used and manipulated in relation to agriculture. Also, Brouwer wrote in context to the countryside of Europe. The book was separated into four segments; concept, case studies, perspectives, and finally action and practice. These four parts made the book easier to follow and also provided a clear direction and structure. The first part broke down practices that could be taken from Europe, and possibly applied to Africa. Brouwer provides a clear framework the allowed me to understand his definition of and purpose. Art two gets more complex as case studies and models are introduced. Having not studied economics, it took more time to digest. Part three gets into the policy and government influence in regards to agriculture. Again, these concepts were focused on European areas, which differ from the United States in many ways. The fourth and final part was dedicated to action and methodology. It is here that Brouwer begs the question, “Is this considered in my countries policy
Floor Brouwer, a senior research scholar at Wageningen University, specializing in natural resources and agriculture, made valuable edits to the book, Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment: Governance, Policy and …show more content…
Once that is established, the book moves toward how those policies, and their multifunctionality, play a role in agriculture especially in rural America. The book includes case studies, deign examples, and definitions. These supplemented learning tools helped break the book up into more tolerable segments. The majority of the book is in fact a review of how these multifunctionalities may be used and manipulated in relation to agriculture. Also, Brouwer wrote in context to the countryside of Europe. The book was separated into four segments; concept, case studies, perspectives, and finally action and practice. These four parts made the book easier to follow and also provided a clear direction and structure. The first part broke down practices that could be taken from Europe, and possibly applied to Africa. Brouwer provides a clear framework the allowed me to understand his definition of and purpose. Art two gets more complex as case studies and models are introduced. Having not studied economics, it took more time to digest. Part three gets into the policy and government influence in regards to agriculture. Again, these concepts were focused on European areas, which differ from the United States in many ways. The fourth and final part was dedicated to action and methodology. It is here that Brouwer begs the question, “Is this considered in my countries policy