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Showing 1 to 20 of 475 for “"Food production"”.
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China's food production under water and land limitations
… natural resources (water and land) needed for food production is highly uncertain. Evidence shows diminishing natural resources and growing food demand throughout many parts of the world. China is one of the countries that face the challenge of managing its finite water and land resources to …
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Investigating Different Types of Variability in Food Production System
A high level of competition in the food industry, specifically in the Middle East and the UK has forced companies to improve their processes by reducing lead time, waste, and costs and increasing production efficiency. The main challenge to the achievement of the process improvement objectives is …
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Evaluating land suitability to increase food production in Kenya
With increasing food deficits and growing population, Kenya is facing strong challenges to meet the food demand of the country, as the majority of the domestic consumption of some staple food sources, such as wheat and rice, is heavily relied on food relieve. This report aims to investigate the …
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Fertile ground: enhancing local food production in Delft, South Africa
… operation that will create jobs, supply healthy food and reestablish farming as a lucrative business in an impoverished community. It is intended to inspire people to transform the landscape of local food production and sustainable agricultural practice. Most impoverished communities tend to feel …
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Food production strategies and the sustenance of rural livelihood at Umzumbe
… like population increase and attitudes towards food production. The aim of this research was to examine the problems related to the process of food production among the peasantry at Umzumbe, and to assess the extent to which food is secured for the sustenance of peasant rural livelihoods. …
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Does U.S. food aid have disincentive effects on local food production?
Food aid is an important tool to fight poverty and avert humanitarian crises in developing countries. Although multiple studies on U.S. food aid have been carried out in the past few decades, the answer to the question— what is the impact of food aid on agricultural production— remains unclear. …
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Quantifying China's carrying capacity : using optimization to explore sustainable food production
… of carrying capacity provides insight into the food security of the study region as well as the stress on the environmental system; in addition, this methodology can be used to assess the carrying capacity under a variety of policy interventions such as increasing yields, changing diets, or …
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A study of the efficiency of food production in college kitchens
… existing condition that make tor efficiency in food production in colleges enrolling twelve hundred students or less and (2) to work out a plan that would as nearly as possible meet the description of an ideal kitchen.
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A Research Design for Assessing the Possibilities of Localized Food Production
Local food production movements have claimed a central role in proposals to mitigate some of the negative effects of economic globalization. Although not meant to be a panacea for the ills of the neoliberal order, local food production is advocated as a sustainable solution to a portion of the …
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Prehistoric Plant Procurement, Food Production, and Land Use in Southwestern Tamaulipas, Mexico
In this dissertation, I examine plant use, food production, and land use in the Ocampo region of southwestern Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico. In the early 1950s Richard S. MacNeish excavated in a series of dry cave sites within the study area and discovered evidence for the local adoption of …
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The landscapes we eat: reconnecting people to food production through agri-toursim
The production of the food we eat has an effect on the landscapes around us, from deforestation, to air and water pollution. The world grows 95% of its food in the uppermost layer of soil, making topsoil one of the most important components of our food system. Current conventional agricultural …
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Land use, food production, and the future of tropical forest species in Ghana
… will maximise their populations for a given food production target. In this thesis, I aim to identify what land-use strategy will permit increases in food production with least impact on species in the forest zone of Ghana. Farm-fallow mosaic landscapes with shifting cultivation and native …
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The impact of including water constraints on food production within a CGE framework
… resources, irrigated land use change and crop production within a computable general equilibrium modeling framework. The modeling approach is developed on a variant of the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model that describes three agriculture sectors-crops, livestock and …
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Fresh Squeezed: The Dilemma of Local Food Production Along Colorado's Front Range Urban Corridor
… urban/agricultural battlefield. The history of food production and urbanization in this area is similar to many regions throughout the western United States. Originally an extraction based economy, Colorado later became agriculturally/pastorally based, and more recently became a service-based, …
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Optimising the trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Neotropics
… consumption rise. How we choose to produce food will, to a large extent, determine the state of biodiversity and the wider environment in the 21st century. Balancing livestock production and environmental concerns is of particular importance: rangelands cover approximately one quarter of the …
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Efficacy of agroecological approaches to ameliorate trade-offs between food production and biodiversity conservation
… biodiversity and the land’s capacity to produce food over the long term. Consequently, there has been significant interest in (agro-)ecological intensification approaches, which entail managing agricultural landscapes to enhance ecosystem services that support productivity. However, little is …
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Below-Ground Food Production in Habitats Utilized by the Rocky Mountain Populations of Greater Sandhill Cranes
… biomass, and distribution of below-ground foods used by RMP cranes in agricultural fields and wetlands across six annual cycle events in 2006 and 2007 (wintering, spring staging, spring stopover, breeding, post-breeding, and fall staging). Below-ground foods were sampled in sandhill crane …
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Procedure to assess affective change in students enrolled in a culturally oriented food production management course
… a basis for the study was a culturally oriented food production management course;Seventy-eight affective behaviors and 160 behavioral incidents were identified and classified according to the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook II: Affective Domain by Krathwohl et al. (1969). The …
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