02931cam a2200481 4500 2718310700 TxAuBib 20260328120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781469674605 1469674602 84f5bd73-4165-405f-bba6-a70f51d4e8b3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10175593 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ashwood, Loka. Empty Fields, Empty Promises [Libby eBook] : A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. monopoly and oligopoly power in agriculture. rural poverty and rural racial minorities. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. agricultural law and the rural burden. foreign ownership in agriculture. United States right to farm laws. takings of rural property rights. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. environmental justice. agricultural nuisance. Agrarian Democracy. and negligence. Agribusiness. trespass. HTML: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.<br /> <i>Empty Fields, Empty Promises</i> 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. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-27 20:00:02. Imlay, Aimee. Kuehn, Lindsay. Franco, Allen. Diamond, Danielle. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=84f5bd73-4165-405f-bba6-a70f51d4e8b3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)