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Our Shared Burden: Why Eaters Are Farmers Best Friends Brian Halweil Editor, Edible East End Publisher, Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan

Courtesy of World Agroforestry Center.

Courtesy of Bernard Pollack, Nourishing the Planet.

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Farmers as a percent of the total U.S. population

Source: Compiled using data from Census of Agriculture, Census of Population, Census of the United States, Historical Census of the United States

Percent of Farmers