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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Food network"”.
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Food network : design for a new territorial logic
Food shapes territory. While only 3% of the world's surface is occupied by cities, 38 % is used for agriculture. Most of this land is used to harvest the 7,605 tons of food that are produced per minute worldwide. Of this, almost one third will be wasted, while only two thirds will be consumed, most …
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Gullah/Geechee Food Network: Using Culture as an Economic Development Tool
… on a federal level that make the creation of a food network along the Georgia coast, extending to the southern tip of South Carolina a feasible option for the collection of Rosenwald schools in the Gullah/Geechee Heritage Corridor (CHC). The application of various resources available through …
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"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network
… of loosely connected organizations such as food pantries and soup kitchens constitute the emergency food network. Organizations in this network provide a critical source of food to millions of households each year. This dissertation examines how organizations in one city-level emergency food …
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Connecting the City: A Vertical Farm for Baltimore's Food Desert
The thesis analyzes Baltimore City's food network, and seeks a site which has the potential for several factors: site accessibility, renewable resources, solar exposure, and connecting the community. These factors serve as the basis in which to build a hybrid prototype that is able to expose people …
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Barefoot Lifestyle: Investigating how natural yields derived from ecological systems can create resilience and community engagement
… systems could be developed into an alternative food network accessible to the local community. The process highlighted the importance of diversity, being flexible and adaptable when creating resilience.
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Building agriculture: an architectural investigation of a new urban farm type to establish food sovereignty In Regent Park, Toronto
… have adequate access to healthy and affordable food1 Across the country this issue is even more prevalent in urban centers compared to rural areas2 .Considering that by 2050, it is estimated that 68% of the world’s population will live in cities, more needs to be done in order to ensure proper …
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The agriculture-water interface : policy integration and the environment
… counties of England.Adopting an interface-network methodology, the analysis traces the network of social relations which directly and indirectly influence the use and management of irrigation water and potential response to demand management policies, encompassing farmers' interaction with …
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Architecture for a Regional Food System: A Food Hub for the Beacon Hill Neighborhood
… and mutually beneficial relationship between food and cities. However due to industrialization of our contemporary food network the tangible connections to food that were once present in the urban landscape have been lost. Supermarkets have replaced the public market, the traditional site for …
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Comparative Ecological Modeling for Long-term Solution of Excess Nitrogen Loading to Surface Waters and Related Chronic and Systemic Human-Environment Problems
… studies of soils, C and N emissions, and food web networks provide transferable principles to guide local action for sustainability. Soils in long-term forest land-use stored more C and organic matter than soils in long-term agricultural use. These results recommend permaculture, …
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Cultivating Curriculum: How Investing in School Grounds, the Streetscape and Vacant Land as Urban Ecosystems can Address Food Security, the Community and Institutions of Public Education
… shone on the issue of access to healthy foods, food education and the correlation between an increasingly unhealthy population and proximity to fresh, healthy food. Further legislation such as the Urban Agricultural Production Act of 2017 has been introduced to leverage the Farm Bill's …
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Exploring the effects of single and dual phase culturing on the concentrations of Southern Ocean sea-ice algae and transporting living sea-ice algae from the Southern Ocean to land-based research facilities
… in sea ice form an important part of the oceanic food network, providing secondary producers with a source of food, particularly during winter, and are suspected of seeding algae blooms during spring and summer. Researching sea ice and sea-ice algae in situ is an expensive and logistically …
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Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
… examines the recent merger of alternative food networks (AFNs) with technology startup food delivery companies. Rather than situating these new “online farmers’ markets” within a binary alternative-industrial framing, this work explores the ways in which these new market models bridge …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… and their role as producers in the global food network. This ultramodern identity incorporates aspects of previous rural identities, including an obsession with combating urban stereotypes of farmers as 'hicks.' In addition, this rural ultramodern identity views farmers as having an inborn …
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Impacts of ocean acidification and other (global change) stressors on marine invertebrates
… and performing dynamic roles in the estuarine food chain for a long time, they have served as a viable food source for avifauna and ichthyofauna in those areas. In Chapter 3 we investigated the physiological or biochemical plasticity of OA in isopod C. carinata, and in Chapter 4 we describe how …