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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"food self-sufficiency"”.
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Mapping and modeling British Columbia's food self-sufficiency
Interest in local food security has increased in the last decade, stemming from concerns surrounding environmental sustainability, agriculture, and community food security. Promotions for consumption of locally produced foods have come from activists, non-governmental organizations, as well as some …
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Ill fares the Land? The concept of national food self sufficiency in political discourse 1880-1939.
… which had enabled Britain to feed herself from within her own resources, free trade resulted in domestic food production constituting only 30% of the British diet. This study looks at the political discourse from 1880 to 1939 when the ¿empty countryside¿ became a symbol of agricultural …
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Optimal land allocation for Hawaiian agriculture using an entropy-based approach
… 50 years in The State of Hawai'i, the issues of food self sufficiency and environmental resource protection have been called for, but not necessarily addressed in a quantitative manner. These concerns have been key priorities in The State of Hawai'i Constitution, Hawai'i 2050 Sustainability Plan, …
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The impacts of trade and agricultural policies in the Dominican Republic: a sector programming approach
… Inward--oriented policies included a policy of self-sufficiency and a penalty on traditional export crops through an exchange rate differential. Outward-oriented policies consisted of a change in the fertilizer price to reflect the border price and the elimination of government subsidies in the …
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Gender-differentiated constraints in Malian semi-subsistence production: implication for integrated pest management and food security
… and production decisions on the attainment of food security and net revenue maximization for farmers located in the Koulikoro region of rural Mali. A linear programming model is used to determine how gender-differentiated constraints, size of the household, and potential integrated pest …
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Food demand and supply under global change
… energy. This is important to meet the increasing food demand driven by global demographic change, which is further accelerated by changes in regional lifestyles. In this dissertation, we attempt to address this complex problem exploring agricultural potential globally but on a local scale. For …
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Leveraging improved seed technology, migration and climate information for building the adaptive capacity and resilience to climate risks in semi-arid regions
… less viable for many families already ravaged by food insecurity and poverty. This dissertation examines three ways of reducing vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate variability and building resilience in the farming communities residing in semiarid lands. These include the use of …