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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Agrifood System"”.
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A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town
… because of the perception that the globalising agrifood system is unsustainable, untrustworthy, and untransparent. These alternative strategies for food production and distribution are perceived to be rooted in sustainable, socially-embedded principles. In more recent years, solidarity purchase …
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The Effects of Storytelling on Worldview and Attitudes toward Sustainable Agriculture
There is evidence that the American agrifood system is a significant contributor to environmental, economic, social, and ethical-animal welfare damage to the earth and to society and is unsustainable, yet the worldview of a substantial percentage of the population conflicts with this assessment. A …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… for identity work and rehearsal of alternative agrifood movement practice (AAMs; MacAuley and Niewolny, 2016; Pilgeram, 2011). AAMs embody and recursively construct values of biophysical sustainability, food quality, egalitarianism, and agrarianism (Constance, Renard, and Rivera-Ferre; 2014). …
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COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
In recent decades, the global agrifood system has increasingly faced variety of challenges, including climate change, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, economic instability and the growing demand for food driven by population growth. Traditional agricultural practices adopted in rice (Oryza …
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Understanding women's perspectives and experience in sustainable agrifood systems in the Mid-South region of the United States
… of women farmers in the Mid-South's sustainable agrifood systems (SAFS) to identify factors constraining or enabling their empowerment. The three central questions are: a) How do women farmers perceive their relationships with various institutions, in managing resources for farming activities and …
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APPLICATION OF CARBON CREDITS IN THE ITALIAN AND PAKISTANI AGRI-FOOD SECTOR
… how they can be integrated into carbon credit systems to achieve both economic and environmental benefits. In rice farming, practices such as alternate wetting and drying (AWD), and midseason drainage are shown to effectively lower CH4 emissions by altering soil conditions and breaking the …