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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"agroecology"”.
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Self-Reliance and Land-Grant Universities: An Exploration of the Impacts of USAID Policy on Agroecological Possibilities
… social movements of food sovereignty and agroecology seek to transform local and global food systems away from the dominant neoliberal paradigm. Using localized and participatory practices, agroecology seeks to develop self-reliant communities towards more just and equitable food systems. …
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Alternative Food Landscapes. Designing Food-Sensitive Landscapes beyond Urban-Rural Bonundaries
… these challenges through promoting biodiversity, agroecology, and sustainable land management. However, a significant gap persists between theory and practice in food-sensitive landscape design, especially in bridging the urban-rural divide. This research addresses the gap between sustainable food …
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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
… 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 Conviver from 2005-2008. The analysis involved an assessment of the production and earnings by 359 …
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A cross-cultural examination of measurement invariance of smallholders in Kenya, Uganda, Mali and Lesotho
… The data were reanalyzed within each agroecology to determine localized factor structures. Results indicate that a market driven factor and agrarian driven factor tend to emerge across multiple agroecologies suggesting some emergence of latent variables. Recommendations for scale …
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COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
… and consumption of agricultural goods. Agroecology (AE) represents an integrated approach that includes ecological and social principles into the design and management of food and agricultural systems (Barrios et al.,2020). Recognized as a potential practice to meet these goals under the …
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Permaculture as farming practice and international grassroots network: a multidisciplinary study
Agroecology is a promising alternative to industrial agriculture, with the potential to avoid the negative social and ecological consequences of input-intensive production. Transitioning to agroecological production is, however, a complex project that requires action from all sectors of society – …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… previous scholarship in environmental studies, agroecology, critical race studies, rural sociology, critical historiography, agrifood studies, and regional studies to further a person-centered critique of industrial agriculture. It uses the scalar model to connect Mississippi’s history of small …
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Beyond the Classical Landscape: Representing Greece and Anatolia in British Illustrated Books, 1832-1882
… for British travellers, paying attention to agroecology, physical geography, archaeology, the built environment, and the lives of the people of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. On the other, it merits considering how images of landscapes were created by artists and draughtsmen and disseminated …
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Aquaponics : community and economic development
… agriculture, worker-owned cooperatives, agroecology.
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Land Access as Liberation: A Qualitative Study on Faith, Food, and Farming of Urban and Rural Black Land Stewards in the United States
… these structures through cooperative economics, agroecology, and land reclamation efforts (White, 2018).</p> <p>This research seeks to center the voices and experiences of Black farmers and land stewards, and underscores land access as a fundamental pillar of liberation and empowerment.</p>
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Culture, Gender, and Flavour in the Conservation of Chile Pepper in Mexico, 1970s-present
… which developed within ethnobotany and agroecology as a response to the industrialization of Mexican agriculture. Second, this work shows that other modes of relating to and caring for crops – in this case those carried out by women cocineras – enact practices that are vital for the …
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Accounting for Sustainable Livelihoods: The dialectic between Fairtrade and Biodiversity
… labour theory of value along with the science of agroecology to detail the challenges to the achievement of sustainable livelihoods. Fairtrade fails to deliver sustainable livelihoods at the level of the coffee co-operative. Agricultural biodiversity using an agroecological approach supports …
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Harvesting Diversity Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Transformation of the Green Revolution, 1950–2000
… contemporary discourses of sustainability and agroecology. By showing scientists’ ambition and negotiation with national governments, international donors, and local farmers, this thesis contributes to the historiography of Green Revolution, the scholarship on Cold War Taiwan and Southeast …
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Integration of food consumption and nutrition considerations into the RIARS farming systems research and extension project in the Bicol region of the Philippines
… most useful for research domain subgroups were agroecology, produce disposal, resources and food and income gaps. Nutrition/consumption information enabled the team to plan separate research designs for groups of families with similar conditions. Production factors identified for investigation …
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Conundrums of food governance in South African metropoles
… and supporting shared agenda-setting. “Agroecology and the metropolitan biopolitics of food in Cape Town and Johannesburg” (Kroll 2021) explores state capabilities to promote agro-ecological transitions. It finds poor alignment between the rationalities and institutions of government and …
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Future Climate Rhetorics of Belize: A Counter-Apocalyptic Inquiry into Belize’s Possible, Probable, and Preferable Futures
… phenomenology, and acoustic ecologies of agroecology. Chapter one considers the values embedded in climate change policy documents, specifically the Nation Communications documents composed by Belize’s various ministries since the country signed to the Paris Agreement in 2016. Using the …
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Smallholder sugarcane growers, indigenous technical knowledge, and the sugar industry crisis in Fiji
… knowledge. The thesis draws inspiration from Agroecology as an agricultural paradigm alternative to the conventional industrial paradigm to advocate for greater attention to be given to smallholder sugarcane growers and their local and traditional farming knowledge in seeking solutions to the …
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Energy scarcity and food security: strategies for transition to resilient food system governance
… is adopted, and that scaled up, farm sector agroecology is promoted, to complement existing permaculture and organic approaches.
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The new philanthropy and smallholder farmers' livelihoods. A case study of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in the northern region of Ghana
… methods of faming such as irrigation farming agroecology, and permaculture could be exploited to the benefits of smallholder farmers. The outcomes of this study have policy implications for philanthropic practitioners. This study shows that the failure to involve farmers directly in decisions …
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Agriculture in Tongan Prehistory: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… techniques from Human Ecology, specifically agroecology, replicated past production systems using measures of system efficiency such as nutritional value of taxa, labour investment and productivity in terms of yields. These were compared to expectations based on current literature, and a …
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