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Homeland Security Planning: What Victory Gardens And Fidel Castro Can Teach Us In Preparing For Food Crises In The U.S., A. Bryan Endres, Jody M. Endres
Homeland Security Planning: What Victory Gardens And Fidel Castro Can Teach Us In Preparing For Food Crises In The U.S., A. Bryan Endres, Jody M. Endres
A. Bryan Endres
Food security is an essential element of comprehensive government crisis response plans. The absence of a terrorist attack on the agricultural sector, however, has been “more by luck than design” and the American public has a false sense of food security due to the invisibility of its complicated food supply chain. Current planning efforts, grounded in the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 and a series of Presidential Directives, rely exclusively on the status quo of conventional agriculture and neglect the potential security benefits of regional and local food networks. Two historical examples, the World War II Victory Garden program and Cuba’s …
The Legal Needs Of Farmers: An Analysis Of The Family Farm Legal Needs Survey, A. Bryan Endres, Stephanie B. Johnson, Donald L. Uchtmann, Anne H. Silvis
The Legal Needs Of Farmers: An Analysis Of The Family Farm Legal Needs Survey, A. Bryan Endres, Stephanie B. Johnson, Donald L. Uchtmann, Anne H. Silvis
A. Bryan Endres
In post-modern agriculture's increasingly complex operating environment, the literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues facing today's farm operators from the perspective of the farmer. Numerous scholars (included the authors) have analyzed various specific legal/policy issues and their impact on the agricultural community. This article, however, adopts a unique bottom-up approach in which the family farmers, rather than scholars or practitioners, identify their actual legal needs. Derived from the Family Farm Legal Needs Survey conducted by the authors with the support of the Illinois Bar Foundation, this article fills a critical gap in the literature and will enable …