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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"organic agriculture"”.
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Enacting standards in organic agriculture
… ‘sustainability’ labels, like those signifying organic or Fairtrade status. It examines how the voluntary product standards that underpin such labels are enacted through the everyday practices of producing, certifying and marketing farmed produce. This qualitative study of the enactment of …
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Encouraging Organic Agriculture: The Effects of Conversion Subsidies
… subsidies in accounting for an increase in organic acreage in the 12 North-Central States in the United States. Monthly time series data that spans from January 2002 to December 2014 was used in the analysis. Empirical evidence suggests that increase in organic acreage is due in part to the …
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Adopting Organic Agriculture in British Columbia as an Established Pathway to Regenerative Agriculture
Organic agriculture is increasingly touted as an ecologically superior farming method, and as such, a pathway towards regenerative agriculture. This study is situated in British Columbia, where demand for organic produce continues to grow, yet local adoption of organic agriculture remains limited. …
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Knowledge in the making : embodying transdisciplinary moments on organic agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Organic agriculture in Java, Indonesia, has been historically intertwined with social movements that struggled for more economically, ecologically, culturally, and socially sustainable agriculture. While these grassroots movements emerged under an authoritarian government that showed little …
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CENÁRIO DA AGRICULTURA ORGÂNICA NO SEMIARIDO BRASILEIRO
Organic agriculture has gained prominence, both because it is a practice that does not harm the environment and because it provides foods with higher nutritional values. However, there are still major challenges for organic production, especially in semi-arid regions, where information does not …
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Assessing policy and institutional change's influence on alternative agriculture in Zimbabwe since 1980
… in Zimbabwe are advocating for alternative agriculture as a better form of agriculture compared to conventional agriculture in order to increase agricultural productivity, as well as address challenges such as climate change, erratic rainfall patterns, and environmental degradation. The …
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Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog
… and failures in the transition from city life to organic agriculture, as well as explored the nature of the blog form. The thesis reads in reverse chronological order, as a blog would. It was and remains an experiment in form, voice and technique.
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SHIFTING LEGITIMATING ACCOUNTS IN A CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL FIELD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIC FOOD INDUSTRY, 1990-2011
<p>In this study, we argue the organic industry's move towards a more legal definition of organic production indicated a shift in the legitimating criteria in the organic agriculture institutional field, which can be observed through the analysis of the legitimating accounts of various actors. …
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Landscape effects on bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colony performance and fitness in New York State
… landscapes (natural, suburban, conventional agriculture, and organic agriculture). In the summers of 2016 and 2017, 64 commercial bumble bee colonies were deployed across 16 sites (4 in each landscape) and their growth (weight and bee abundance) and fitness (caste production), and survival …
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Evaluation of Bioherbicidal Properties of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tagetis for Control of Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)
… plant species that is problematic in Canadian agriculture. It can be particularly challenging for organic farmers, as it cannot be eliminated using methods like tillage, due to its ability to regrow using adventitious shoots from root fragments. One strategy would be to use an organic …
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Weed management practice selection among Midwest U.S. organic growers
… Restriction of synthetic herbicide use in organic agricultural systems increases the complexity of weed management, leading organic farmers to cite weed management as the greatest barrier to organic production. Integrated Weed Management (IWM) systems have been developed to address the …
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Management impacts on GHG emissions and yield for an organic soybean crop
As demand for organically grown food increases, growing organic soybean can be profitable and also improve soil ecosystem services through sustainable agronomic practices. However, because most chemical inputs are restricted from organic agriculture, producers rely heavily on tillage for weed …
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Global niche markets and local development : clientelism and fairtrade farmer organizations in Paraguay's sugar industry
… and socially responsible products. Organic agriculture favors smallholders' labor-intensive production, and Fairtrade certification explicitly attempts to leverage globalization for smallholder development. Paraguay's smallholder sugarcane farmers have been the unlikely beneficiaries …
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
… and farmers’ markets, to community supported or organic agriculture. However, there is an impasse in differing positions over whether AFNs represent an exclusionary place-based ‘quality turn’ (Ilbery and Kneafsey 2000), or whether they contribute to inclusive local communities, sustainability and …
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Operationalising sustainability impact assessment of land use scenarios in developing countries : a stakeholder-based approach with case studies in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Tunisia
… intensification and the potential for organic agriculture in Bijapur district (India), and (v) land division and privatisation in Narok district (Kenya). The FoPIA method was effectively adapted by dividing the assessment into three conceptual steps: (i) scenario development; (ii) …
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Ethical pesticide policy : beyond risk assessment
… nonhuman nature, principally by the methods of organic agriculture and natural farming. Democracy is improved by including in the decision-making those who lie in the path of the policy: public interest groups that bring expertise, experience, and social values, farming interest groups that …
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Balanço energético em cultivos orgânicos de hortaliças
A preocupação com a preservação dos recursos naturais e com a saúde humana têm sido marcantes nas últimas décadas. Por isto a agricultura orgânica tem se desenvolvido muito em diversos países, inclusive no Brasil, buscando atender a estes anseios da sociedade. Esta missão só poderá ser atingida de …
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Právní úprava ekologického zemědělství
1 Diplomová práce je zaměřena na právní úpravu ekologického zemědělství v České republice. Práce se snaží shrnout naši vnitrostátní úpravu v souvislosti s úpravou Evropské unie. Práce se skládá z devíti kapitol, každá z nich se zabývá různými aspekty ekologického zemědělství. Jednotlivé celky na …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
… the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India, organic food and farming was a ‘way of life’. Stemming from my curiosity about this statement and what it meant for different actors in the regional organic agri-food networks, this research explores the interconnected lives and livelihoods of …
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