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Walking While Asking:Lessons From Agroecology Education In Chiapas, Mexico, Katherine E. Keller
Walking While Asking:Lessons From Agroecology Education In Chiapas, Mexico, Katherine E. Keller
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Keller, Kate, M.S., December 2019 Environmental Studies
Walking While Asking: Lessons from Agroecology Education in Chiapas, Mexico
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Neva Hassanein
This professional paper presents an assessment of the most recent project of Schools for Chiapas (SfC), a U.S.-based solidarity organization working in collaboration with the Zapatista autonomous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. It examines the challenges and potentials of SfC’s efforts to implement food forests at 16 autonomous secondary schools. I contextualize this work within a larger conversation amongst food sovereignty activists and scholars around efforts to scale-out the use of agroecology through education. As the organization looks to …
Water Use In Confined Animal Feeding Operations (Cafos) In Minnesota: Who’S Keeping Track?, Dara Meredith Fedrow
Water Use In Confined Animal Feeding Operations (Cafos) In Minnesota: Who’S Keeping Track?, Dara Meredith Fedrow
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are highly concentrated feedlots that raise large numbers of livestock with an emphasis on efficiency and maximizing output. Hog and dairy feedlots in Minnesota are shrinking in number, yet growing in size. In hand with the rise of CAFOs, water scarcity is a growing concern as the effects of climate change worsen and the human population increases. Though Minnesota is a state of abundant water, it is not evenly distributed throughout the state raising concerns about sustainable water usage.
This paper describes and analyzes how Minnesota’s water appropriation permit system is overseeing water usage in …