Local Food Production Boosts Community Resilience, Challenges Industrial Agriculture Dominance
The chapter discusses how civic agriculture, which combines local food production and community involvement, benefits agriculture-of-the-middle producers economically, socially, and culturally. It compares civic agriculture to industrial agriculture, highlighting the negative impacts of the latter. Civic agriculture focuses on problem-solving and differs from industrial agriculture in farming and food production methods. Sustainable, civic, and agriculture-of-the-middle producers share commonalities, while sustainable agriculture differs from industrial agriculture.