A Theory of Civic Agriculture
A theory of civic agriculture has been laid out by Lyson (2000, 2004),
DeLind (2002), and others (Lyson and Guptill 2004). Civic agriculture
is one component of a larger theory of civic community (see Lyson and
Tolbert 2003; Robinson, Lyson, and Christy 2002; and Tolbert, Lyson,
and Irwin 1998). Proponents of civic agriculture look for an explanation of agricultural development that is driven by social processes other
than economics.