From Fail-Safe To Safe-To-Fail: Sustainability And Resilience In The New Urban World, 2011 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
From Fail-Safe To Safe-To-Fail: Sustainability And Resilience In The New Urban World, Jack F. Ahern
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Abstract: The extent to which the 21st Century world will be "sustainable" depends in large part on the sustainability of cities. Early ideas on implementing sustainability focused on concepts of achieving stability, practicing effective management and the control of change and growth-- a "fail-safe" mentality. More recent thinking about change, disturbance, uncertainty, and adaptability is fundamental to the emerging science of resilience, the capacity of systems to reorganize and recover from change and disturbance without changing to other states-- in other words, systems that are "safe to fail." While the concept of resilience is intellectually intriguing, it remains largely unpracticed …
The Role Of Sorghum In Food Security In Central America, 2011 Texas A & M University
The Role Of Sorghum In Food Security In Central America, Lloyd W. Rooney
INTSORMIL Presentations
Discusses the qualities of sorghum that make it suitable for human consumption, with a focus on its use in Central America.
The Costs Of Increased Localization For A Multiple-Product Food Supply Chain: Dairy In The United States, 2011 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
The Costs Of Increased Localization For A Multiple-Product Food Supply Chain: Dairy In The United States, Charles F. Nicholson, Miguel I. Gomez, Oliver H. Gao
Agribusiness
There is increased interest in greater localization of food supply chains but little evidence about the effects of localization on supply-chain costs. Assessing these effects is complex in multiple-product, multi-process supply chains such as the dairy industry. In this study, we develop a spatially-disaggregated transshipment model for the US dairy sector that minimizes total supply-chain costs, including assembly, processing, interplant transportation and final product distribution. We employ the cost-minimizing solution as benchmark to compare alternative scenarios of increased supply chain localization. Our results indicate: (1) short-run limits to increased localization, (2) modest impacts on overall supply-chain costs, and (3) large …
Factors That Influence Prices For Cool-Climate Wines: A Hedonic Analysis Of The Market For Riesling, 2011 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Factors That Influence Prices For Cool-Climate Wines: A Hedonic Analysis Of The Market For Riesling, Christiane Schroeter, Jennifer L. Ritchie, Bradley J. Rickard
Agribusiness
The price of wine represents various characteristics that differentiate each bottle, assuming that the majority of consumers use price as a signal of quality. The objective of this study is to analyze the drivers of Riesling prices, since this varietal continues to gain popularity and can be grown in all climates, including cool-climate regions. We expand the use of quality ratings by including interaction terms to express wine-quality and price-quality relationships. The results suggest that higher price premiums are associated with wines that earned high expert rating scores, and this emphasizes the importance of market-perceived quality signals.
Yak, A Green Icon And A Good Investment, 2011 SIT Study Abroad
Yak, A Green Icon And A Good Investment, Caroline Kang
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
“Yak, A Green Icon and Good Investment” was conceived after I briefly interned for the Mongol Yak Society during the NGO Drop Off. I became interested and even, invested in their mission. For three weeks of the ISP period, I worked closely with the Mongolian Yak Society based in Ulaanbaatar and researched how increasing the productive value of yaks through improved communications, equipment, knowledge, and support will address several key environmental and economic issues. I further focused on the Mongolian Yak Society and its role as a detached entity that intervenes on various levels of the yak wool value chain: …
What Does Barbecue Tell Us About Race?: Andrew Warnes, Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, And The Invention Of America's First Food. Athens: University Of Georgia Press, 2008. 208 Pp., $19.95., 2011 University of the Pacific
What Does Barbecue Tell Us About Race?: Andrew Warnes, Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, And The Invention Of America's First Food. Athens: University Of Georgia Press, 2008. 208 Pp., $19.95., Ken Albala
College of the Pacific Faculty Articles
No abstract provided.
Saŋɔ Baara Cogo N´A Feere Cogo Gafe: Mogo Minuwye Gafe Dilan Oye = Fiche De Production Et De Commercialisation Du Mil = Production And Marketing Of Millet, Botorou Ouendeba, Niaba Teme
USAID Mali Mission Awards
U.S. government publication about millet production and sales in West Africa. In the Bambara language.
Fiche De Production Et De Commercialisation Du Mil = Production And Marketing Of Millet, 2011 IICEM
Fiche De Production Et De Commercialisation Du Mil = Production And Marketing Of Millet, Botorou Ouendeba, Niaba Teme
USAID Mali Mission Awards
U.S. government publication about production and sales of millet in West Africa. In French.
Poverty Alleviation, Banks' Structures And Islamic Financing In Sudan, 2011 Department of Economics. Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan
Poverty Alleviation, Banks' Structures And Islamic Financing In Sudan, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed
Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed
The continuous regressions in the per capita income of the Sudanese people have triggered many suggestions to ameliorate their productive capabilities. One of them was the facilitations in financing programs through official channels. However, there are many structural impediments that inhibit those programs. One of the financial programs was the Small or miniature financing in addition to the establishment to specialized Banks as the Family Bank. The current paper discusses issues of financing in Sudan as part of programs initiated to improve income per capita. Islamic and regular financing systems are analyzed in order to explain existing impediments. Then Family …
Validating The Culture Of Agriculture: Farmers Groups And Organic Agriculture Mitigating Rural To Urban Migration In Bhutan, 2011 SIT Study Abroad
Validating The Culture Of Agriculture: Farmers Groups And Organic Agriculture Mitigating Rural To Urban Migration In Bhutan, Emma Dosch
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Agricultural occupations make up the largest proportion of Bhutan’s workforce. Over the past two decades the occupation has shrunk from 90% to 65% of Bhutan’s employment. The younger generation of Bhutan’s rural population is seeking livelihood opportunities in urban areas, leaving farms with labor shortages. The movement may compromise the identity and sustainability of Bhutan’s rural population and undermine the nation’s goals of Gross National Happiness (GNH) directed policy. Initiatives to retain and legitimize agricultural livelihoods are emerging inside and outside of government policy. Existing efforts are models of ways to reconnect educated individuals with the needs and values of …
2010 Census Data For Rural Nebraska Total, Youth And Latino Populations, 2011 Nebraska Rural Initiative, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2010 Census Data For Rural Nebraska Total, Youth And Latino Populations, Randolph L. Cantrell
Cornhusker Economics
As has been reported elsewhere, Nebraska saw a second consecutive decade of population growth between 2000 and 2010. The 2010 Census counted 1,826,341 Nebraskans, an increase of 6.7 percent (+115,076 residents) since the 2000 Census. This growth, while somewhat slower than the growth of 8.4 percent observed during the 1990’s, was better than the Midwest regional average growth of 3.9 percent, and better than the growth of either Iowa or Kansas.
According to the University of Nebraska Center for Public Affairs Research, Nebraska’s population growth during the last decade resulted from both a natural increase (excess of births over deaths) …
Resolving Division Fence Disputes In Nebraska, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Resolving Division Fence Disputes In Nebraska, J. David Aiken
Cornhusker Economics
Ideally, neighbors can agree between themselves on most fencing issues. If they do not, Nebraska Division Fence Statutes provide a legal process for resolving fence disputes. A recent Cornhusker Economics Newsletter (June 2, 2010), discussed the 2010 requirement that splits the cost of a wire division fence 50-50 between neighbors, and also the history of the Nebraska Division Fence Statutes. This newsletter discusses the process for resolving fencing disagreements in Nebraska.
The Impact Of Qmm On Social Relations In Fort-Dauphin, 2011 SIT Study Abroad
The Impact Of Qmm On Social Relations In Fort-Dauphin, Christopher B. Collier
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
My interest in this subject began with a general desire to understand how Malagasy society adapts to “outsiders.” We learned throughout the semester about the various external forces that have shaped the culture of the island since the arrival of the first people here thousands of years ago. At first, my ideas were focused more on the experiences of people immigrating to Madagascar. I observed very particular patterns: immigrants of certain ethnicities fill specific socioeconomic niches in specific geographic areas, and with varying reception from the Malagasy community.
I came to realize, however, that similar patterns take place even between …
Intraseasonal Management Strategies For Deficit Irrigation, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Intraseasonal Management Strategies For Deficit Irrigation, Isaac I N Mortensen
Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Reduced availability of irrigation water to producers has led to the need for intraseasonal management strategies that efficiently use the limited supply of irrigation water. Historical weather data was used to develop a range of conditions experienced at the location. Sound weather data improves the dependability of management strategies. Data from weather stations on the Automated Weather Data Network and the Colorado AgMet network were evaluated based upon net radiation and dew point temperature observations expected in an irrigated agricultural setting. This weather data was used to create a relationship between the Penman-Montieth evapotranspiration (ET) and Hargreaves ET and …
Farm Program Payments: A Changing Pattern In Nebraska’S Farm Income, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Farm Program Payments: A Changing Pattern In Nebraska’S Farm Income, Bruce Johnson
Cornhusker Economics
Over the last decade, considerable change has occurred to the nature of farm cash receipts and net farm income. Total cash receipts to the state’s agricultural sector doubled from about $9.5 billion in 2000 to more than $19 billion in 2010. At the same time, total receipts to the crop sector accelerated even more - increasing from the $3 billion range to around $9 billion by the end of the decade, a threefold increase! The result has been net farm income levels climbing to the $4 billion range annually over the last few years, a level more than 50 percent …
Heifer Development Management: One Size Does Not Fit All, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Heifer Development Management: One Size Does Not Fit All, Matthew Stockton, Roger K. Wilson
Cornhusker Economics
A substantial cost to beef cattle producers is the development or purchase of replacement females. Each year, beef cattle producers may replace as many as 20 percent of the herd, with the average being close to 16 percent. With so much of the producer’s success riding on the proper care, development and cost of supplying replacement heifers, it is no surprise that the literature is filled with studies devoted to determining the ideal maturity and strategies to develop them.
While the question of determining beef heifer replacement strategies has been studied in some detail, the complexity of relationships between the …
Food Is Life: The Impact Of A Changing Food Industry On The Role Of Women In The Home, 2011 SIT Study Abroad
Food Is Life: The Impact Of A Changing Food Industry On The Role Of Women In The Home, Diana Lay
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This paper looks at how growing food insecurity in Ghana, and Cape Coast in particular, is changing the role of women in the community. It examines government agricultural policy and its influence on urban communities, including Cape Coast. It seeks to understand the factors that women take into account when they prepare meals for their families and ways in which women are adapting to increasing prices of food and imported ingredients available in the markets. The research incorporated is based on the personal experiences of the author, interviews, and secondary sources. It looks at power dynamics within the community, as …
Historic And Contemporary Trends Of The Conservation Reserve Program And Ring-Necked Pheasants In South Dakota, 2011 Eastern Illinois University
Historic And Contemporary Trends Of The Conservation Reserve Program And Ring-Necked Pheasants In South Dakota, Christopher R. Laingen
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Over the past century, the interactions between agricultural land use and government cropland retirement programs have affected pheasant population change. Two government land retirement programs that returned croplands to grasslands, Soil Bank in the 1960s and the current Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), help to illustrate these connections. From 2007 to 2010, South Dakota lost 41% of its CRP lands and experienced an 18% decline in pheasants per mile. However, because of where CRP expirations have occurred and where pheasant populations are found, some regional variability is seen. Western South Dakota (Region 1) had an 80% increase in pheasants per mile …
Eco-Labeling And Market Equilibria With Noisy Certification Tests, 2011 University of Wyoming
Eco-Labeling And Market Equilibria With Noisy Certification Tests, Charles F. Mason
Charles F Mason
No abstract provided.
Evaluating Women In Agriculture Training Programs In South Dakota, 2011 South Dakota State University
Evaluating Women In Agriculture Training Programs In South Dakota, Carol J. Cumber, Barnabas Sugutt
Economics Commentator
No abstract provided.