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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Family farmers"”.
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
This dissertation explores the creation of the sugar beet industry in Michigan and the new relationships and conflicts it engendered. Rural Michigan offers an excellent place for analyzing how one part of the rural Midwest experienced many of the social and economics changes historians usually …
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Milking anomie: experiencing food safety on Canadian dairy farms
… food safety impacts the production practices of farmers, and where farmers place the burden of food safety responsibility, while partially testing institutional anomie theory. A legal discourse analysis of food safety law in Canada is performed to contextualize individual interviews with six …
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Assessing the feasibility of a weather index insurance for the semi-arid region of Brazil
… firstly developed to assist climate-vulnerable farmers from developing countries where establishing a well-structured crop insurance market is expressively difficult due to the poor transport infrastructure and the prevalence of sparsely distributed small-scale farms. In Brazil, the semi-arid …
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Rural territorial dynamics in northeast Brazil: the Jiquiriçá Valley in Bahia
… is an agricultural region characterised by family farming, and forms one of 26 clusters of municipalities in Bahia designated as Territórios de Identidade under policies promoting participation in development planning. The study applied geographical and social science concepts of …
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Desenvolvimento e otimização do processo de extração de pectina a partir do resíduo de maracujá da caatinga (Passiflora cincinnata Mast.) utilizando tecnologia do ultrassom de alta intensidade
… is conducted by cooperatives formed by family farmers, with 24 agro-industries in the state of Bahia alone. It is known that food processing units generate large volumes of residual biomass after harvesting and processing. An efficient way of reuse would be through the use of fruit and …
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Food sovereignty’s potential to address poverty and hunger by creating sustainable peasant led agri-food systems: a case study from the Brazilian food acquisition programme in Mirandiba, Pernambuco
… were support of peasants and small-scale family farmers, prioritisation and support of local food systems and commerce and promotion of agroecology. The policy analysed is the Brazilian government’s Food Acquisition Programme (FAP), as implemented in Mirandiba, Pernambuco by the NGO …
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qualidade de frutos da laranjeira ‘mimo-do-céu’ (Citrus sinensis l. osbeck va. mimo), oriundos de diferentes epocas de colheita
… the quality of 'Mimo-do-Céu' orange produced by family farmers from four municipalities of the Territory of Borborema. The 'Mimo-do-Céu' oranges were harvested at the commercial maturity, between C1 and C3, according to the Maturity and Quality Standards of the CEAGESP, from two different harvest …
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A agricultura familiar do Seridó potiguar: vulnerabilidade, percepção e adaptação às mudanças climáticas
… socioeconomic and environmental factors that put farmers in a position of vulnerability to the effects of climate; assess their perceptions about climate variations that have already occurred and their knowledge about climate change and global warming, also to identify which adaptation strategies …
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Soropositividade de anticorpos anti-Toxoplasma gondii e anti-Trypanosoma cruzi em populações ribeirinhas do recôncavo baiano
… were female, over 31 years of age, with a family income below one minimum wage, self-identified as Black, and family farmers. In Cachoeira, 163 individuals were screened, with a mean age of 21.45 (± 13.78), the majority being in the age range of 0 to 14 years, female, with an income below …
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Avaliação da eficiência do Pronaf B e seus resultados na qualidade de vida em Estado de Minas Gerais
A redução da pobreza e a busca pelo bem-estar da população tem ocupado a pauta das políticas públicas no Brasil e no mundo, motivando a elaboração de projetos e programas que visam fortalecer os segmentos mais frágeis da população. No meio rural, com o objetivo de reduzir a pobreza e melhorar as …