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Español A Inglés / English To Spanish: A Guide For Communication In Livestock Operations, Charles A. Shapiro, Leslie J. Johnson, John C. Fech, Paul Hay, Tom Holman, Larry Howard

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Translated by: Rachel Albin, Dianne Danehey, Trevor Wright, and Alex Alpizar

Inglés/English * Cómo pronunciar la frase en Inglés * Español/Spanish * How to pronounce the phrase in Spanish

Numbers * General Communication * Locations * Weather * Colors * Days * Descriptions * Quantities * Feeding * Animal Health * Veterinary Terms * Manure Handling * Animals * General animal care

Implementation Of Aquaponics In Education: An Assessment Of Challenges, Solutions And Success, Emily Rose Hart

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponic technology to grow both fish and plants together in a closed-loop system. While aquaponics can play a role in increasing food security, it may also be a potential educational tool because of its interdisciplinary nature and required technological skill set. With aquaponics, students could conduct hands-on activities involving chemistry, physics and biology to solidify their understanding of a range of theories. Beyond standard science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) principles, aquaponics may be related to projects on sustainability, environmental science, agriculture, the food system, health, economics, business and marketing. The interdisciplinary nature …

White Spaces In Black And Latino Places: Urban Agriculture And Food Sovereignty, Brandon Hoover

Sociology Educator Scholarship

In recent years urban agriculture has gained the attention of policy-makers, social organizers, and academics alike. This new wave of work and attention focuses on projects that ameliorate issues ranging from food insecurity to urban blight, and environmental degradation to the subversion of industrial food production. These projects consist of a variation of community gardens, educational programs, demonstration farms, and entrepreneurial production farms (I will identify all of these under the umbrella of urban agriculture (UA)). However, by simply studying the social impact of UA, researchers fail to consider who the active agent is in social change; this results in …