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Filtering by: Subject Irrigation farming -- Economic aspects -- Oregon Decade 2010-2019 Language English [eng]

Right as rain? The value of water in Willamette Valley agriculture

Creator:

Kalinin, Alexey V.

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Signs of climate change across the Pacific Northwest indicate changing patterns of timing and availability of stream flow. Declining summer low flows, decreasing snow pack, higher temperatures and an increasing fraction of mountain precipitation falling as rain, raise concerns about future reliability of stream flows. These changes will likely affect...

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Masters Thesis

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manager of the Greenberry Irrigation District south of Corvallis, Oregon, for his help in understanding
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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are the Environmental, Economic, and Social Barriers To Achieving Agricultural Sustainability in The