The two major U.S. presidential candidates, Clinton and Trump, could not kill the prospects for a lame-duck vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by themselves, although they tried. In the end, it is someone else who snuffed the idea. Industrial Advantage Maywa Montenegro and Alastair Iles of UC-Berkley lament that conventional industrial agriculture has what they term “thick legitimacy,” something that they advise alternative agriculture to pursue. Professor Iles focuses on environmental policy and social change. However, Vietnam provides evidence of why the idealized small-scale agriculture is risky. Agricultural productivity growth has been weak there, largely because farms are small scale and consequently cannot afford or do not...