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

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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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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

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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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three generations (Pretty 2002; Weizsacker 1994). Therefore, sustainable systems based agriculture
Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

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Klingensmith, Thomas S.

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This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...

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culture. Systems like organic agriculture and sustainable agriculture are important and are a part of