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Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study explores the social aspects of agricultural land-use in the Marys River region. The study seeks to understand how farmers define sustainability and how their views on agricultural issues help to define a sense of place and identity in the Marys River region, within the context of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: more sustainable regional community within the globalized system of agriculture? A critical

Creator:: Klingensmith, Thomas S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: culture. Systems like organic agriculture and sustainable agriculture are important and are a part of

Creator:: Hofbauer, Derek M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: on future decisions regarding land use in southern Belize. 17 3. Sustainable Agriculture in the

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service, Bane, Gwendolyn, Murray, Helene, and Dick, Richard
Abstract:: Published January 1993. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: $9;w 331 A Sustainable Agriculture"70' Resource Guide for

Creator:: Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station, Selby, H. E. (Halbert Edgerton), 1896-, Nelson, Oran M. (Oran Milton), 1888-, and Gorton, W. W. (William Winfield), 1907-
Abstract:: Published October 1935. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Resource Type:: Technical Report

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: three generations (Pretty 2002; Weizsacker 1994). Therefore, sustainable systems based agriculture

Creator:: Islam, Md. Shahidul
Abstract:: The adoption of modem agricultural technologies in Bangladesh increases overall agricultural productivity and income primarily through the increase in cereal crop production. It, however, impedes the productivity of several other minor crops and fishes, widens the distribution of income between the rich and the poor, exploits resources and obstructs the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: October 18, 1995. Title: Strategies for the Development of Sustainable Agriculture in Bangladesh Ludwig

Creator:: Diebel, Penelope L., 1961-, Ball, Daniel A. (Daniel Allen), 1954-, and Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Abstract:: There is growing concern among producers regarding the sustainability of current dryland winter wheat cropping practices. This study looks at the economic viability of three wheat rotations currently being studied at the Columbia Basin Research Center in Pendleton, Oregon, including W IF and two alternative rotations, W/B/F and C/W/F. The...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: the wheat/fallow rotation is not economically sustainable. Other studies report that wheat/fallow may

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