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The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

Creator:

Hofbauer, Derek M.

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Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...

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Masters Thesis

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on future decisions regarding land use in southern Belize. 17 3. Sustainable Agriculture in the
What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

Creator:

Stanton, Michael

Abstract:

This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...

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Masters Thesis

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three generations (Pretty 2002; Weizsacker 1994). Therefore, sustainable systems based agriculture