Download or read book The Farmer s Lawyer written by Sarah Vogel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new foreword by Willie Nelson "An exquisitely written American saga." --Sarah Smarsh The "remarkably well told and heartfelt" (John Grisham) story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the '30s, she naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.
Download or read book The Fault Lines of Farm Policy written by Jonathan Coppess and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about our government’s role in society is the complex farm bill. American farm policy, built on a political coalition of related interests with competing and conflicting demands, has proven incredibly resilient despite development and growth. In The Fault Lines of Farm Policy Jonathan Coppess analyzes the legislative and political history of the farm bill, including the evolution of congressional politics for farm policy. Disputes among the South, the Great Plains, and the Midwest form the primordial fault line that has defined the debate throughout farm policy’s history. Because these regions formed the original farm coalition and have played the predominant roles throughout, this study concentrates on the three major commodities produced in these regions: cotton, wheat, and corn. Coppess examines policy development by the political and congressional interests representing these commodities, including basic drivers such as coalition building, external and internal pressures on the coalition and its fault lines, and the impact of commodity prices. This exploration of the political fault lines provides perspectives for future policy discussions and more effective policy outcomes.
Download or read book Long term Farm Policy to Succeed the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America written by Kym Anderson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the second in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Europe's transition economies) that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time and provides analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of South America, plus the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Together these countries constitute about 80 percent of the region's population, agricultural output, and overall GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the 1950s, and there have been substantial reforms, especially in the 1980s. Nonetheless, numerous price distortions in this region remain, others have been added, and there have even been some policy reversals in recent years. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for assessing the successes and failures of the past and for evaluating policy options for the years ahead.
Download or read book Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2002 Monitoring and Evaluation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication presents data on the level and composition of support to agriculture, and evaluates the extent to which countries are reforming their agricultural policies. A special section is devoted to agricultural trade and the implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement.
Download or read book Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2003 Monitoring and Evaluation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication presents data on the level and composition of support and protection to agriculture, and evaluates the extent to which countries are reforming their agricultural policies. Special sections are devoted to the analysis of the 2002 U.S. Farm Act and to agri-environmental policy.
Download or read book Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2001 Monitoring and Evaluation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication provides data on the level and composition of support and protection to agriculture, and evaluates the extent to which countries are reforming their agricultural policies.
Download or read book Beginning Farmers Assistance Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand written by Phrek Gypmantasiri and published by IIED. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislative Policies written by National Grange and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Download or read book Farm Household Income Issues and Policy Responses written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this report provides an overview of the income situation of farm households and the influence of agricultural and of tax and social security policies on them. The second part investigates more specifically how efficient some of the most commonly used policy interventions are.
Download or read book Farm Garden Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward the Next Generation of Farm Policy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thunder at Michigan and Thunder in the Heartland written by Bunyan Bryant and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a unique program that was created at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment in 1972, the Environmental Advocacy Program now known as the Environmental Justice Program. Its pedagogical creed differed significantly from traditional teaching within the University. Those involved de-emphasized the role of teacher as the locus of control and endeavored to serve more as facilitators of the learning process. Authority-dependent relations were discouraged. The classroom was student-centered to emphasize student participation and symmetrical relations between student and faculty, thus fostering self-affirmation and empowerment. This education philosophy created an atmosphere that allowed students to take charge of their own learning. It is hoped that by having a few graduates relate their educational and professional experiences in this volume, we might influence some of our colleagues in academia to build similar programs--Introduction and p. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Agricultural food Policy Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tenure and Sustainable Use written by James Oglethorpe and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1999 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report represents a snapshot of the issue of tenure and sustainable use by a number of leading practitioners and academics in the field. The book is in two parts: Influence of Tenure and Access Rights on the Sustainability of Natural Resource Uses and Tenure and Sustainable Use. Volume I is a collection of papers from a workshop held at the World Conservation Congress organized by the Sustainable Use Initiative, 17-20 October 1996, Montreal, Canada. Vol. II is a collection of papers from the workshop "Tenure and Sustainable Use" Organized by the Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, (11-14 October, 1998) in collaboration with the Sustainable Use Initiative.
