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A science-based podcast series that explores programs, people, and ideas in food-system sustainability. A joint production of the Southern SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) Program and the University of Kentucky. Our new podcasts will feature research/education projects of graduate students funded in part by the Southern SARE Program.
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Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Is Agricultural Intensification Destructive to Rural Communities?
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Today’s episode touches on a broad landscape of important questions in sustainability, thanks to the social sciences. Do Americans want a largely agrarian food system? Or an industrial model? Who is the principal beneficiary of an industrial model? Rural communities? Consumers? Agribusiness interests? Does an industrial model extract rural wealth, “hollowing out” farming communities? Is sustainable intensification good for farmers? Or do they end up being the lowest-cost producers in global commodity chains? If so, who benefits from that? Is it in society’s interest to help farmers stay on the land, in hopes of creating robust, middle-class, family-owned farming communities?
Featured music: Beethoven 3rd Symphony Movement #1, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, imslp.org
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