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Title: Empty Fields, Empty Promises Condition: New Format: Hardback Release Date: 26/09/2023 Subtitle: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm EAN: 9781469674582 ISBN: 9781469674582 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Description: The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws. It reveals that they generally benefit the largest operators, like processing plants, while traditional farmers benefit the least. Disfavored most of all are those seeking to defend their homes and environment against multinational corporations that use right-to-farm laws to strip neighboring owners of their property rights. Through what the book calls the "midburden," right-to-farm laws dispossess the many in favor of the few, paving the path to rural poverty. Empty Fields, Empty Promises summarizes every state's right-to-farm laws to help readers track and navigate their local and regional legal landscape. The book concludes by offering paths forward for a more distributed and democratic agrifood system that achieves agricultural, rural, and environmental justice. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 155mm Author: Loka Ashwood, Danielle Diamond, Allen Franco, Aimee Imlay, Lindsay Kuehn Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics Book Series: Rural Studies Series Release Year: 2023
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