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The Role Of African Leafy Vegetables In Food Security, Marcia M. Croft
The Role Of African Leafy Vegetables In Food Security, Marcia M. Croft
Open Access Dissertations
African leafy vegetables (ALVs) are a diverse set of crops grown across sub-Saharan Africa. They have been a staple of traditional diets and contain many critical micronutrients but their importance has been largely ignored by researchers and policymakers at the expense of imported crops. Availability, accessibility, and utilization of ALVs are limited by factors across the supply chain. This research investigated seed systems, drought tolerance, hydroponic production, market barriers, consumer preference, and the impact of gender as related to ALVs. We found that ALVs play an important role in food security and that critical differences exist between formal and informal …
What We Talk About When We Talk About Food Systems: Discourse In An Emergent Field, Hailey Grohman
What We Talk About When We Talk About Food Systems: Discourse In An Emergent Field, Hailey Grohman
Food Systems Master's Project Reports
This project is made up of three distinct parts: a communications report from the 2016 UVM Food Systems Summit, a discourse analysis that uses the Summit as a text, and a narrative essay addressing the 2016 Summit's core question, "What Makes Food Good?" The three parts come together to form an analysis of communications within the discipline of food systems, one which grapples with emergent themes and issues in the field.
Social Ecological Food Systems: Sustainability Lessons From Maine Dairy Networks, Julia B. Mcguire
Social Ecological Food Systems: Sustainability Lessons From Maine Dairy Networks, Julia B. Mcguire
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Milk production has played an integral role in the culture, landscape, and economy of Maine’s agriculture. Maine dairy farmers have faced numerous sustainability challenges to economic, environmental, and social aspects of their industry. Like many other complex social ecological systems, the Maine dairy industry faces a gap between scientific knowledge and actionable management or policy. A cultural dichotomy exists between conventional and organic farming. Shifting the focus from this binary, metrics such as social capital may play a key role in solving sustainability issues. Difficulties arise in the governance of complex social ecological systems when the scales of assessment, management, …
Food System Education Among High School Students, Yussra Mt Ebrahim
Food System Education Among High School Students, Yussra Mt Ebrahim
Honors Theses and Capstones
As the American public school system is currently designed, the average student is likely to graduate high school without ever having received any formal instruction regarding the food system in which he or she takes part as a consumer. Such instruction was not necessary up until the current era of separation between consumers and food production. Through this research project, I sought to demonstrate the effectiveness of a single introductory lesson on the issues confronting the modern American food system, which I taught to two high school biology classrooms. A pre-survey was taken by the high school biology students online …