The Farm Crisis: Who's in Trouble, How To Respond. National Issues Forum Series.

Sonst. Personen	Melville, Keith (Hrsg.)
Institution	Public Agenda Foundation, New York, NY.; Domestic Policy Association, Dayton, OH.
Titel	The Farm Crisis: Who's in Trouble, How To Respond. National Issues Forum Series.
Quelle	(1986), (47 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lernender; Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Agricultural Production; Agriculture; Economics; Farmers; Federal Aid; Federal Programs; Instructional Materials; Land Use; Secondary Education; United States Government (Course); United States History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Farmer; Agriculturist; Landwirt; Landwirtin; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Bodennutzung; Sekundarbereich
Abstract	Farming and food related businesses generate one out of five jobs in the private economy and account for about 20 percent of the gross national product. These instructional materials, designed for use in secondary schools, encourage students to explore the significance of farming to the U.S. economy and the major problems confronting U.S. agriculture. Problems in the agricultural sector create a ripple effect with three nonagricultural jobs lost for every agricultural job lost. The nation's farm problem is the result of human politics and economics. They are rooted in the 1930s and are based on the notion that all farms are alike and that government benefits flow equally to all farms. Large farms represent less than five percent of all farm operations, but they produce almost half of the national farm product. Almost 30 percent of all farm subsidies go to the largest one percent of all producers. A small percentage of the nation's farmers get the bulk of government cash supports. The fact that a large population can be fed through the efforts of a smaller fraction of the labor force is vivid testimony to the accomplishments of farm technology. If the solutions proposed in the 1930s are no longer appropriate to the 1980s, there is as yet no consensus about what the current direction and policy toward farming should be. (SM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC