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The United States and Canada both saw a rise of Agrarian-oriented parties in the early twentieth century as economic troubles motivated farming communities to become politically active. It has been proposed that different responses to agrarian protest largely determined the course of power generated by these newly energized rural factions.
Agrarianism is social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values. [1] It stresses the superiority of a simpler rural life as opposed to the complexity of city life.
Agrarianism, in social and political philosophy, perspective that stresses the primacy of family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization.
Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that advocates for a return to subsistence agriculture, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. Those who adhere to agrarianism tend to value traditional forms of local community over urban modernity.
The agricultural policy of the United States is composed primarily of the periodically renewed federal U.S. farm bills. The Farm Bills have a rich history which initially sought to provide income and price support to US farmers and prevent them from adverse global as well as local supply and demand shocks.
Understanding why and how agricultural policy has changed over time contextualizes the shift from farming communities to factory farms, environmental crises, America’s role in international grain trade, and how food travels from farm to table.
It is clear to us that, in the twentieth century, the agrarian question evolved far beyond the question of industrialization for its own sake. It is also clear that the motive forces of the progressive change have been the struggles against colonialism and its legacies.
