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communitydevelopment, etc ; accountability; anthropology; Mexico; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Despite a robust legacy of scholarship that has critiqued participation in development, the relationship between participation and empowerment remains unclear. Adelanto is a small non governmental organisation in Chiapas, Mexico, engaged in radical participatory community development. Using an ethnographic approach, we examined Adelanto’s politicised participatory approach, analysing assumptions t ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; urban agriculture; urban development; Show all 3 Subjects
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... A Recipe for Gentrification is a masterful exploration of the complex relationship between intent and impact at the intersection of alternative food systems and urban development. The goal of this edited volume is to unpack the ways in which food systems can both drive and resist gentrification. The introduction lays out the many nuanced drivers of both processes. For instance, well-intentioned ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; agriculture; governance; sustainable agriculture; Show all 4 Subjects
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... What are the roles and responsibilities of U.S. academia in global fora such as the United Nations Food Systems Summit? In an effort to be better global partners, the Inter-institutional Network for Food and Agricultural Sustainability (INFAS) accepted an invitation to participate in the UNFSS. INFAS then convened a debriefing for our members to hear from our colleagues about their experiences and ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; agriculture; foodways; Ukraine; Vermont; Show all 5 Subjects
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... As the world grapples with how to support the millions fleeing the ongoing war in Ukraine, attention must be extended to how these individuals, and the many others who are forcibly displaced in other parts of the world, can be welcomed to new lands. Research indicates that creating foodways through gardening can provide cultural connections for diasporic communities. However, few studies have a ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; agriculture; inventories; systematic review; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Food systems literature has shifted towards inter disciplinarity and the use of systems lenses but can still be disjointed and unconnected. To bring together disciplinary knowledge and establish a common understanding of food systems, we conducted a systematic review to inventory sustainability outcomes of the U.S. food system. The literature search returned 2,866 articles, which was reduced to 49 ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; agriculture; community gardens; governance; lifestyle; California; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Considerable research has examined the changing values and governing approaches of urban community gardens since the nineteenth century in the United States. However, few studies exist for community gardens located in postsuburban contexts. This study reports the findings from six case studies of community gardens in southern Orange County, California, that asked, how are the themes of garden g ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; Landsat; cities; landscapes; statistical analysis; urbanization; India; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Urban growth in the twenty-first century, unlike the conventional mega-city centred development, is occurring in small- and medium-sized cities of the developing world. However, in India possibilities of medium-sized cities are often unnoticed. The current study uses landscape metrics to extract spatial dynamics of built-up patches for applications in spatial planning in the urban landscape of Man ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; activists; agriculture; income; poverty; public policy; stigma; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The affordable housing crisis in the United States is leaving millions of Americans homeless or spending over one-third of their income on rent, a condition housing scholars refer to as ‘shelter poverty.’ This problem has clear linkages to the food system in terms of the cost and condition of food workers’ housing, the availability of food in low-income neighborhoods, the relationship between f ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; ecosystems; environmental management; governance; national parks; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Exploring win-win approaches to ecological conservation and community development goals is a central issue in the management of PAs. Achieving sustainable management of ESs in PAs is more of a social governance issue, requiring the SES managers to understand the diverse tradeoffs among ESs and well-beings and design management plans with supportive governance processes and institutions. To solve t ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; health promotion; issues and policy; urban agriculture; Show all 4 Subjects
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... United States cities have developed urban agriculture support systems with different priorities and institutional structures, with significant impacts and implications for social equity and justice. Some treat farming and gardening as public goods, public spaces, valued for their community-building, environmental and public health promotion, and other social benefits. Others have sought to extrac ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; biomass production; photosynthesis; phytoplankton; species diversity; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Biodiversity determines the productivity and stability of ecosystems but some aspects of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships remain poorly resolved. One key uncertainty is the inter‐relationship between biodiversity, energy and biomass production as communities develop over time. Energy production drives biomass accumulation but the ratio of the two processes can change during communi ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; land use; landscapes; surveys; urban development; California; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Comprehensive or general plans are long-range documents intended to guide future urban or regional land use, growth, and development. Structured and periodic monitoring and evaluation of plan implementation is important to identifying when plans should be revised or updated based on changed planning assumptions or conditions, but such monitoring is uncommon. In this study we present and illustrate ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; USDA; agriculture; compliance; markets; organic certification; policy analysis; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Many of the challenges organic producers and processors experience are caused by how organic standards compliance is monitored and enforced—in particular, the administrative procedures that are mandated to verify that operation practices meet organic certification requirements. In this policy analysis, we examine noncompliance documentation and verification by accredited certifiers under the U.S ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; ecosystems; old-growth forests; population dynamics; tephra; understory; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Several processes bury plants, but sediment can also be subsequently removed, often by delayed erosion. Thus, the ability to survive multiple years of burial and to respond when released are important to vegetation changes and population dynamics. We experimentally evaluated the effects of delayed removal of tephra (aerially transported volcanic ejecta) in an old-growth forest understory near Moun ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; environmental sustainability; humans; income; supply chain; trade; wood; Kenya; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Mangrove forests provide harvestable wood and non-wood resources to human society globally. The current study evaluated value chain of mangrove wood products from Lamu, Kenya, and how these impacts on resources’ sustainability. Results show that, exploitation of mangrove wood products in Kenya involves several actors, including national regulator, licensees, cutters, transporters, stockists and th ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; agriculture; databases; food retailing; issues and policy; markets; Ohio; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The local foods movement is now firmly entrenched in the public imagination and as a feature of the larger food economy. With the most recent wave of local food retail markets now in its second decade, scholarly attention has turned to the factors that correlate with success, yet we know very little about local food consumer purchasing patterns. In this study, we examine a comprehensive databas ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; blood; environmental health; geography; lead; retrospective studies; urban areas; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Lead poisoning remains a major environmental health threat and a persistent source of health disparities in the United States, particularly in large cities such as Chicago. However, little research has considered the rapidly changing urban environment, due to processes like gentrification, when examining risk factors for pediatric lead poisoning. In this retrospective study, spatio-temporal analys ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; deforestation; ecosystems; ecotourism; habitats; humans; social forestry; wildlife; Indonesia; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The high rate of deforestation and fragmentation of elephant habitat on Sumatra Island has triggered human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Sumatra Island, Indonesia. This conflict brings negative impacts on humans and elephants. Despite numerous efforts having been made to solve this problem, the HEC continues to occur in the remaining elephant enclave every year. The harmonious coexistence between hum ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; case studies; interpersonal relationships; models; ownership; Australia; East Timor; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Friendship forms the basis of 35 community partnerships between Australia and Timor-Leste. Friendship facilitates the ownership of project activities by Timorese partners bringing into the development relationship a mutual respect and a shared journey of a kind that is not typical in time-bound aid projects. This paper reviews different models of donor-recipient relationships. A case study is used ...
communitydevelopment, etc ; agriculture; climate; governance; issues and policy; traditional farming; India; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Among food practices that foster climate resilience, traditional agricultural practices of Indigenous communities have been recognized and noted in recent times. These forms of agriculture include shifting cultivation and its adaptations across communities in the tropics. However, the policy narrative around shifting cultivation is rooted in its misunderstanding, as it was once seen as primitiv ...