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Ingeborg Boyens Another Season's Promise : Hope and Despair in Canada's Farm Country
"Penguin Books Canada, Limited" 2002 0140297022 / 9780140297027 Paperback New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked. (Near Fine), no spine or cover creases.() You don’t have to be a farmer or live on the prairies to engage with this book. You do, however, have to be passionate about your fellow man, woman, child, and our collective future. Another Season’s Promise highlights the recent plight of the farmer by following the Wieler family of Manitoba. Documenting the day-in-the-life-of, author Ingeborg Boyens explores the hard realities and personal difficulties facing all farmers: the lack of security nets, the continual decline in market prices for their goods, the increasing demand for expensive chemicals and genetically modified seeds. These forces of modernization have transformed the survivors into mostly large agribusinesses composed of mere labourers and managers rather than caretakers. Meanwhile, the federal government demonstrates a preference for minimal, band-aid solutions. With every passing year, the family farmer takes another dangerous s ID: mon0000063177"
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8.51 USD
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