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60 Lisa McLaughlin, “Inner-City Farms”, Time, 4 August 2008; Caryn Rousseau, “More Schools Cultivate Learning in Student Gardens”, Associated Press, 17 November 2008; USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, “Farmers Market Growth: 1994–2008” – см. www.ams.usda. gov, данные обновлены 22 сентября 2008 г.

61 Исторические данные взяты из Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland and Neilson Conklin, The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy (Washington, DC: USDA, ERS, June 2005), p. 5; USDA, NASS, 2007 Census of Agriculture (Washington, DC: February 2009), pp. 7, 64, 110–111; Andrew Martin, “Farm Living (Subsidized by a Job Elsewhere)”, New York Times , 8 February 2009.

62 Martin, op. cit. note 61; USDA, op. cit. note 61, pp. 52, 66–67.

63 Marian Burros, “Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House”, New York Times , 20 March 2009; Michelle Polan, “Farmer in Chief”, New York Times Magazine, 12 October 2008.

64 Cristina Milesi et al., “Mapping and Modeling the Biogeochemical Cycling of Turf Grasses in the United States”, Environmental Management, vol. 36, no. 3 (19 July 2005), pp. 426–438.

65 McLaughlin, op. cit. note 60; “Digging Their Way Out of Recession”, The Economist , 26 February 2009; Adrian Higgins, “Community Gardens Need Room to Grow”, Washington Post, 14 February 2008.

66 USDA, op. cit. note 60; текущие данные получены от Joan Shaffer, USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, и из личной беседы с Дж Мэттью Роуни, Earth Policy Institute, 13 мая 2009 г.; Valerie Bauman, “More Farmers Markets to Accept Food Stamps”, Associated Press , 26 August 2008.

67 Rousseau, op. cit. note 60; Mary MacVean, “Maria Shriver Says Edible Garden Will Be Planted in Capitol Park Flower Bed”, Los Angeles Times, 27 March 2009.

68 Marian Burros, “Supermarket Chains Narrow Their Sights”, New York Times, 6 August 2008; “Digging Their Way Out of Recession”, op. cit. note 65.

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70 “The Environment: Not on the Label”, The Economist, 19 May 2007 г.; John Waples, “Tesco Turns Itself into a Green Giant”, Sunday Times (London), 31 мая 2009; Tesco PLC, “Tesco Wins Green ‘Gold Standart’ Award”, press release (Hertfordshire, U.K.: 5 June 2009); Miles Costello, “Tesco Reports Record £3 Billion Profit”, The Times (London), 21 April 2009 г.

71 Lauren Etter, “Lofty Prices for Fertilizer Put Farmers in a Squeeze”, Wall Street Journal , 27 May 2008 г.; David A. Vaccari, “Phosphorus: A Looming Crisis” , Scientific American , June 2009, pp. 54–59.

72 Program for Appropriate Technology in Health and U.N. Population Fund, Meeting the Need: Strengthening Family Planning Programs (Seattle, WA: 2006), pp. 5–11;

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