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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Organic farming
This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture
outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and
politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia
and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and
the United States, these geopolitically and economically in-between
places illustrate ways that international treaties have created
contradictory pressures for organic farmers. Organic farmers in
both countries build multispecies networks of biological and social
diversity and create spaces of sovereignty within state and
suprastate governance bodies. Organic associations in Central
America and Eastern Europe face parallel challenges in balancing
multiple identities as social movements, market sectors, and NGOs
while finding their place in regions and nations reshaped by world
events.
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