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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"home garden"”.
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The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia
… economy, the Proyecto Global, and the Tul home garden project. The thesis finds that the communitarian economy can be characterized as both a project of alternative development and alternative modernity; Proyecto Global can be considered a project of alternative modernity; and the Tul home …
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Food matters - escaping to the garden during Covid-19 lockdowns and (re-)connecting with food
This research is an ethnographic study of gardeners growing food in their home-gardens during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in England, UK during 2020-2021. With people confined to their homes under law in attempts to stem the spread of the virus, the UK government recommended that people …
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Plant Medicine: The Use of Medicinal Plants as Green Manures in the Treatment of Streptomyces scabies Infection and Potato Scab Disease
… qualities. Treatments were designed to mimic home garden/family farm type operations and were applied as a single layer of rough chopped plant material coverage directly along with potato tubers within the planted rows. These treatments consisted of calendula, comfrey, and a calendula/comfrey …
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Indigenous women's experiences and responses to climate change: insights from Sri Lanka
… climate change include, a reduction of home garden yields due to drought conditions, and various health impacts such as heat rashes due to prolonged droughts and changes in rainfall patterns. Vedda women's responses to climate impacts include shifting crop varieties, buying store-bought …
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A multiscalar, interdisciplinary study of the social and ecological dynamics of urban agriculture in Chicago, IL
… sites of food production, such as community gardens, they have overlooked the actual and potential contribution of private spaces, including home food gardens, to local food systems. In the first phase of the research project, public and private spaces of food production in Chicago were …
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Eigenheimgärten
Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift befaßt sich mit der Kultur der Gärten, wie sie alltäglich an unseren Eigenheimen stattfindet. Sie fragt danach, was uns unsere Gärten heute eigentlich bedeuten. Sind sie bloßes Abstandsgrün oder kleine Paradiese? Brauchen wir sie als Reste von Natur oder dienen …