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Defining the "C" in Community Supported Agriculture
, 2016 Localized agriculture is theorized to provide socio-environmental benefits to the community while ensuring a livelihood for local farmers. Much of the food systems literature refers to such an arrangement as civic agriculture, which is characterized as ...
Jennifer M. Haney +6 more
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
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Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States [PDF]
This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are ...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Fostering Access to Local Food Data
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018 First paragraphs: Our cover for this issue depicts the growing adaptation of statistical, infographic, and geographic information systems tools to local food system data.
Duncan Hilchey
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann +8 more
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Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2020 This research explores the opportunities offered for green city-making on the recently secured Bagmati riverbanks in Kathmandu which is subject to rapid inward migration from landless rural farmers. It asks what the theory and practice of architecture can contribute in this setting to support the fit between emergent bottom-up initiatives and top-down ...
Mitchell, Maurice, Roca Iglesias, Amara
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article is based on a study that examines the practices and perspectives of selected educational actors in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on climate change education. The region is highly affected by climate crises and holds global relevance for mitigation due to its tropical forests and peatlands.
Carla Hermanussen, Saritha Kittie Uda
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CIVIC SOCIETY'S INTERVENTION ON PEASANTRY AGRICULTURE IN RURAL ZIMBABWE
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013 The study investigated the contribution of SAT's agricultural intervention in ward 21 of Bikita in an attempt to improve food security to this drought prone area. The research was largely premised on qualitative methodology and unstructured interviews, focus group discussions and onsite observation were employed as techniques for data gathering.
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Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models: Insights From Argentina
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for ...
Celina N. Amato +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving global sustainability requires rethinking marketing beyond firm centred strategies and towards systemic approaches that engage diverse stakeholders in value co‐creation. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for participatory value co‐creation in sustainable market systems, drawing on stakeholder theory, systems thinking ...
Ahmet Küçükuncular
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