Browsing by Subject "agriculture"
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A PRICING MODEL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR MANURE-BASED BIOCHAR AS A SOIL AMENDMENT
(2018-04-27)This document explores the environmental and market opportunity for manure-based char (MBC) to be used as an agricultural soil amendment product. Biochar is a product with multiple environmental and financial benefits to ... -
Agricultural Drivers of Children’s Nutrition and Food Security in Mvomero, Tanzania
(2017-04-26)The main research question assessed in this paper is: What land use and agricultural practices most significantly influence nutritional and food security outcomes? In particular, are there specific crop growing or selling ... -
Agriculture in a Changing Landscape: Modeling shifts in the geospatial distribution of crops in response to climate change
(2014-04-17)Altered patterns of temperature and precipitation associated with global climate change are expected to affect the productivity of agricultural regions around the world, with varying regional impacts. Since ideal environmental ... -
Agroecology and Women-Run Farms: A case study of women farmers in the United States
(2021-04-30)Women’s farm labor has always been an integral part of agriculture in the United States. How that labor has been understood and documented has changed over time. Today, women are on record as the primary decision-makers ... -
Crop Insurance and Climate Change: Balancing structure and flexibility to improve on-farm management of climate risk
(2014-04-18)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: INTRODUCTION Crop insurance has become an important tool for managing economic and environmental risk in the agricultural sector, and one of the largest sources of Federal subsidies to agricultural producers. ... -
Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence-based approach.
(Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2015-02)Fens represent a large array of ecosystem services, including the highest biodiversity found among wetlands, hydrological services, water purification and carbon sequestration. Land-use change and drainage has severely damaged ... -
Finding Local Resources: A Network Analysis and Knowledge Map of the Agricultural Sector in Alamance County, NC
(2014-04-25)Benevolence Farm is a non-profit organization opening a local farm in rural Alamance County, NC that will house and provide career training for women as they transition out of prison. As they enter this new community, they ... -
Framework for Sustainable Vanilla Cultivation in Madagascar
(2020-04-24)Although synonymous with “boring” in modern rhetoric, vanilla is anything but mundane. At a price point of 600USD per kilo, vanilla is the second most expensive spice traded globally. While the luxury price tag of vanilla ... -
Liberation in the Midst of Futility and Destruction: Romans 8:19-22 and the Christian Vocation of Nourishing Life
(2014)In an era of ecological upheaval that has led some scientists to declare that human activity has inaugurated a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, the apocalyptic theology of the Apostle Paul speaks a timely word of ... -
Regionalizing the Financial, Environmental, and Social Impacts of Water Scarcity on the Fresh Produce Industry
(2022-04-22)Water scarcity is a regionalized issue that threatens community wellbeing and agricultural operations. By sector, agriculture is the largest source of global water withdrawals. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to ... -
Uncle Sam on the Family Farm: Farm Policy and the Business of Southern Agriculture, 1933-1965
(2013)This dissertation examines federal farm policy between 1933 and 1965 and its implementation in North and South Carolina. It argues that restricted economic democracy in the Farm State - the full array of agriculture ...
