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Yeoman Farming in the Mountains

Abstract This chapter follows the Dean family lineage from immigration to America to their participation in the Populist uprising in the 1890s. It describes yeoman farming in the Appalachian hills, and the division in the family between the yeoman farmers in Alabama and the rich planter slaveholders in Missisippi. Joseph Dean, the author’
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Farming in the northern mountains of Pakistan: Role of women

Gender and Behaviour, 2007
Women in the Northern Mountains of Pakistan are actively involved in sowing (except maize), weeding/hoeing, thinning, input transportation to the fields (except for wheat) and its application, irrigation, harvesting and grading (in case of potato). Beside these activities, women of the area are also involved in fruit plants management i.e., in weeds ...
Ishaq, M, Farooq, A
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Nature Conservation Value of European Mountain Farming Systems

2005
High nature value (HNV) farming areas are regarded as farmland where there are intimate relationships between farming practices and biodiversity and where the continuation of those farming practices is essential for the maintenance of this biodiversity value (e.g. Bignal 1998; Luick 1998; Ostermann 1998; Webb 1998; Zervas 1998). By the mid 1990s, there
McCracken, DI, Huband, S
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Ways of adaptation of mountain farms

1996
Les exploitations agricoles françaises restent marquées par une imbrication indissociable entre l'unité de production et le groupe familial qui la pilote. L'exploitation agricole est certes soumise aux règles économiques, mais sa stratégie ne se réduit pas à l'obtention du revenu agricole maximum.
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Green Mountain Farm

The New England Quarterly, 1949
Crane Brinton, Elliott Merrick
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Farming in the Mountains of Nepal: Crops, Soil Fertility, Livelihoods and Farm-Forest Linkages

Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science, 2022
Kishor Atreya
exaly  

COMPETITIVENESS OF MOUNTAIN FARMS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

The aim of the study was to assess the competitive capacity of commercial agricultural holdings located in mountainous areas of the European Union (EU). First, the concept of competitiveness was examined on the basis of the economic and agricultural economics literature.
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Wind farms and mountains

2020
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Agricultural engineering in the ecological mountain farms

Mountains and hilly regions in Poland are very important for Polish economy because they do not only account for 8% of Polish territory, but also fulfil a significant role in environmental protection of water supply for the rivers, in tourism and in the ecological chain of plants and animals.
Jucherski, Andrzej, Golka, WiesÅ‚aw, Eymontt, Andrzej   +2 more
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The Perception of Ecosystem Services of Mountain Farming and of a Local Cheese: An Analysis for the Touristic Valorization of an Inner Alpine Area

Sustainability, 2020
Rebecca Montrasio, Silvana Mattiello, Dino Genovese   +2 more
exaly