agrarianism

noun

agrar·i·an·ism ə-ˈgrer-ē-ə-ˌni-zəm

: a social or political movement designed to bring about land reforms or to improve the economic status of the farmer

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Reading him has long offered me a therapeutic shortcut past a lot of wasteful, distracting consumerism, and to the wisdom of agrarianism, as well as the importance of fidelity to one’s household and community. —

Nick Offerman, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023 Dawes meant both to disaggregate Indian land and to desegregate it, bringing in farmers who would model civilized agrarianism for their Indian neighbors. —

Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Everyone from proponents of small-scale agrarianism to climate thought-leaders like Kerry loves this idea. —

Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 19 May 2021 He was also inspired by the do-it-yourself ethos of the Whole Earth Catalog, the legendary 1960s book of tools for hippie agrarianism. —

Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021 But American conservatism shouldn’t be reduced to nostalgic agrarianism. —

Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020