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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"industrial agriculture"”.
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The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
… and institutional authorities created an industrial Soviet countryside in the generation after World War II. Beyond the leadership of the Soviet state, international trade relationships, new technologies, unusual scientific cultures, stubborn environmental realities and human shortcomings …
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Evolution in the Cornbelt : how a few special species are adapting to industrial agriculture
Over the last 150 years, humans have wrought sweeping changes to the Great Plains. What was once the prairie is now the Corn Belt-row crops planted from fencerow to fencerow. What does this mean for the native wildlife, which evolved for millions of years to live only on the prairie? Here are the …
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The State and Industrial Agriculture: An examination of political dynamics emerging from the Bayer-Monsanto acquisition
… and contemporary power dynamics found throughout industrial agriculture. With the theoretical aid of Karl Polanyi and Michel Foucault, I examine how the Bayer-Monsanto acquisition is a viable site in order to reflect the interconnectedness of political and economic forces that organize societies …
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Perpetual Mobilization and Environmental Injustice: Race and the Contested Development of Industrial Agriculture in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
… continuities between historical exploitation and industrial agriculture in the present day. In contrast, I argue that agro-industry in the Delta is productive of environmental and social injustice, and that this injustice is confronted by black agricultural practice. A careful historical …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… historians usually associate solely with urban industrial America. By focusing on industrialization, class relations, and ethnic diversity in a rural context, this dissertation questions the holy triptych of modernization that links urbanization, immigration, and industrialization together as …
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Farming by Satellites: how West Country farmers were being driven to, and by, precision agricultural systems
… up or ‘ecologically modernise’ conventional, industrial agriculture. It should also increase production rates in industrial agriculture to help to ‘feed the world’ as well as being cost effective in ways that could make farmers more money – miracle-grow formula and win-win technology. There …
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A Food Secure World: Is the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation in a position to provide this Global Public Good?
The challenges faced by the global food and agriculture system in the twenty-first century are unlikely to be resolved through the implementation of neoliberal policies, most notably promoting market liberalisation, privatisation and financialisation. Many of these policies have also supported …
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PLANTING RESISTANCE: A history of seed sovereignty
… movement that seeks to overturn the dominance of industrial agriculture in the twenty-first century. By centring the collective knowledge of small farmers and indigenous groups who safeguard crop diversity, seed sovereignty activists highlight the socioeconomic and ecological significance of the …
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Modern homestead : the elemental farmer and the subversion of the agrarian grid
… a state of cardiac arrest. The practice of Industrial agriculture has caused the Central Plains to fail not only environmentally, but socially and economically as well. The problem is not an intrinsically architectural one; but can design, through its practice of rethinking relationships, …
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Folkloric Flux
… of hubristic technological advancement in modern industrial agriculture; 3) The Three Little Pigs to depict socioeconomic dimensions of the 2007-08 housing crisis; and 4) The Adventures of Pinocchio to examine quantitative easing, the widespread experimental monetary program. This paper documents …
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Impacts of environmental change on large terrestrial bird species in South Africa: insights from citizen science data
… and bustards, have adapted to low intensity agriculture to varying degrees, but large-scale industrial agriculture is in general inimical to these species. Cranes are charismatic and well studied, but bustards are retiring and in general cryptically coloured, and little is known of most …
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South Sudan & the “Global Land Grab”: Implications for the Future of Food Security
… sources -- all the ingredients for a thriving agriculture sector -- and yet, it is a net food importer. Worse, 60 percent of the population does not consume enough food to provide a nutritious diet. Why does a country with all the best natural endowments also have some of the poorest hunger …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… and global conversations about sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty. Employing a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies issues from the perspective of individuals, communities, institutions, as well as national and transnational systems. The work draws from previous …
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
… symbols of that destruction from corporate industrial agriculture are CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) and monoculture crop production. This thesis seeks to find examples of producers refusing these methods as well as what motivates those producers to refuse, and what that refuse …
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The Human and Environmental Health Impacts of Food Quality Among Emergency Food Providers
… both human and environmental health. The current industrial food system in the United States has numerous adverse effects on environmental and human health, which significantly impact the millions of food insecure Americans who receive their nutritional needs from emergency food providers …
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The greenhouse tomato industry in Delta, British Columbia
… of food regimes) and the political economy of agriculture, I explore the origins and development of the industry in Delta. I argue that sub-national regulation has historically played a pivotal role in the agricultural development of the region. The impact of such regulation on the greenhouse …
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Fate of Current-use Pesticides in the Canadian Atmosphere
… is declining, they are still a necessary part of industrial agriculture. Numerous pesticides have been quantified in the atmosphere, at high levels near regions of use and at lower, but still significant levels in remote regions. Some of the most persistent pesticides have been banned, but others …
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Hobohemia on the plains: labor, leisure, and industrial discipline in Kansas City, 1873-1915
… action. At the same time, the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) eyed the same group of itinerant workers as a population ripe for organization. Locally, these movements culminated in the formation of the Board of Public Welfare and the Agricultural Workers Organization …
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When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing
… sustaining the soil as the basis for sustainable agriculture, this study considers the texts and contexts of the agricultural reform movement as constituting America's first wave of environmental writing. The surge of scholarship in recent years produced by Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Steven …
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The Effects of Storytelling on Worldview and Attitudes toward Sustainable Agriculture
… entities assert that the detrimental effects of industrial agriculture must be addressed without delay and sustainable agricultural practices implemented. The transition from industrial to sustainable agriculture will not be a simple one. Attempting to change a worldview is not an easy task. A …
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