Author: James A. Lewis
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Category : African American farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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White and minority small farm operators in the South
Author: James A. Lewis
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Category : African American farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category : African American farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Agricultural Economic Report
Author: Conrad F. Fritsch
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Category : African American farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category : African American farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Who Owns Appalachia?
Author: Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80 counties, and within those counties field workers documented the ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20 million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally significant for its systematic investigation of the relations between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities. Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region—local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance for the entire nation.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80 counties, and within those counties field workers documented the ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20 million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally significant for its systematic investigation of the relations between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities. Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region—local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance for the entire nation.
Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities
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Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Publisher:
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Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Rural Research in USDA
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule
Author: Debra A. Reid
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813043530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813043530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience.
Cooperative Extension Small-farm Programs in the South
Author: David Orden
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Public Policy and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture
Author: United States. Congressional Budget Office
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Southern Small Farm Management Workshop, October 25-27, 1978, Sheraton Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee
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Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Structure of U.S. Agriculture Bibliography
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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