Food production and self-sufficiency

Material relating to food production, agriculture, farming, land use, and self-sufficiency, including in local communities. Consists largely of photocopied and typescript reports and book extracts, and some full copies of reports, including the following:
"The Garden Controversy", Studies in Rural Land Use Report No. 2;
"Communities on the Landscape... The Keyline System of P.A. Yeomans", by Roger Mostyn;
"Land, Bread, and History: A Research Report on the Potential for Food Self-Sufficiency in Vermont", by the Center for Studies in Food Self-Sufficiency, Vermont Institute of Community Involvement;
"Food and Agriculture: A Citizen Guide to Community Development", produced by Vermont Tomorrow and the Community College of Vermont;
"Self-Sufficiency Studies: A paper read to the Alternative Technology Group of the Open University", by Robert Vale;
"Food, cost and control", from Science for People no. 34;
"Self-Sufficient Britain - Food", by K.L. Baxter;
"Energy Utilization in Vermont Agriculture", Part II and Summary, produced by the Center for Studies in Food Self-Sufficiency, Vermont Institute of Community Involvement;
"Beyond Isolation: The West Coast Collective food System as We See it", by a Peoples Cooperating Communities Trucking Collective;
"Food Alternatives in Vermont", "Community Food Preservation Centers", "Food Cooperatives in Vermont" and "Tube Food... How T.v. Affects Children's Food Choices", reports produced by the Bread & Law Task Force, Burlington Virginia;
Copies of The Vermont Tomorrow Newsletter, 1975-1977;
"Proposals for Vermont's Agriculture and Food Future: Report of the Governor's Commission on Food, A Summary".
Also includes publicity material from various local food cooperatives and producers from Vermont and New Hampshire.

The following were weeded out, on account of being readily available elsewhere:
Photocopy of chapter 6 of Worm in the Wheat, by Mary French;
"Losing Ground: the first of three discussion papers on United Kingdom food prospects", produced by Friends of the Earth;
"Energy and Food Production", by Gerald Leach. Report produced by the International Institute for Environment and Development.