Food Studies & Nutrition

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Transforming Agriculture

Transforming Agriculture

Women Farmers Define a Food Sovereignty Policy for Canada

From: Food Sovereignty in Canada

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Transitioning to Civilian Life and Living with Post-Traumatic Stress

Transitioning to Civilian Life and Living with Post-Traumatic Stress

From: Field Excercises

Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading discusses the … 18 $1.80 Add
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Triumph of the Sun

Triumph of the Sun

The Mother of All Disruptions

From: A Finer Future

This chapter explores the disruptive potential of solar power to completely transform the way that we produce and use electricity as a society. ; ; ; 47 $4.70 Add
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Trouble with Fishing

Trouble with Fishing

From: Overrun

In this chapter, the author travels to Illinois to meet with commercial fishermen who fish the rivers and lakes of the Midwest. Topics discussed include the methods that fishers use to attempt to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Understanding Adaptive Capacity
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Understanding Adaptive Capacity

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The … 14 $1.40 Add
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Understanding Exposure

Understanding Exposure

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter explores the ways that climate change impacts different regions and different crops, and outlines the effects that environmental changes will have on the highly delicate balance that … 24 $2.40 Add
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Understanding Exposure
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Understanding Exposure

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter talks about exposure and dealing with climate change, offering some climate change adaptation concepts that help to clarify options that reduce climate risk and cultivate the climate … 16 $1.60 Add
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Understanding Fair Trade

Understanding Fair Trade

From: In Pursuit of Justice

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Understanding Sensitivity

Understanding Sensitivity

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 30 $3.00 Add
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Understanding Sensitivity
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Understanding Sensitivity

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 13 $1.30 Add
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Unearthing the Cultural & Material Struggles over Seed in Malawi

Unearthing the Cultural & Material Struggles over Seed in Malawi

From: Food Sovereignty

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Uneven Outcomes

Uneven Outcomes

The Tensions, Contradictions, and Challenges in the Search for Fair Trade

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

In this chapter, the authors list and evaluate some of the more important goals that have been identified by Fairtrade International and its affiliated organizations and producer networks. They … ; ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Value-Chain Control

Value-Chain Control

Relations of Debt and Dependency

From: The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

Industrial Value-Chain Agriculture and Transnational Capital Control Grabbing and the Spatio-Temporal Fix Conclusion 15 $1.50 Add
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Vegetables

Vegetables

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. … 38 $3.80 Add
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Vegetables
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Vegetables

PART 4

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. It … 58 $5.80 Add
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Via Chicago

Via Chicago

From: Overrun

In this chapter, the author travels to Chicago to explore the city’s waterways as another possible vector for Asian carp populations to access the Great Lakes 33 $3.30 Add