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Evaluation Of Leafy Green Species Popular Among Ethnic Groups For Production And Markets In The Northeastern Usa, Ricardo A. Orellana Aug 2015

Evaluation Of Leafy Green Species Popular Among Ethnic Groups For Production And Markets In The Northeastern Usa, Ricardo A. Orellana

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

EVALUATION OF LEAFY GREEN SPECIES POPULAR AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS FOR PRODUCTION AND MARKETS IN THE NORTHEASTERN USA MAY 2015 RICARDO A. ORELLANA, B.S., ESCUELA AGRICOLA PANAMERICA EL ZAMORANO, HONDURAS M.B.A, INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACION DE EMPRESAS (ISEADE) EL SALVADOR M.Sc. UNIVERSIDAD BOLIVARIANA (UB), CHILE Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Frank X. Mangan This dissertation addresses the need to evaluate the potential of leafy green species popular among ethnic groups for production and marketing in the northeastern US, specifically in Massachusetts. The targeted potential consumers for these leafy greens are three ethnic groups living on the US …


Production, Marketing, And Handling Practices To Export Mcintosh Apples To Central American Markets, Mildred L. Alvarado Herrera Aug 2014

Production, Marketing, And Handling Practices To Export Mcintosh Apples To Central American Markets, Mildred L. Alvarado Herrera

Doctoral Dissertations

Latin America offers a marketing opportunity for fresh produce, since many countries are entering into global integration and international trade as part of their portfolio of economic growth. However, to take full advantage of these opportunities, many questions associated with the implementation of marketing approaches, fresh produce quality retention, and profitability need be answered before undertaking this business opportunity. When it comes to developing countries such as those in Central America, and in particular - El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala - language, culture, technology, competitiveness, regulations, poverty, and other barriers become challenges to enter these markets successfully. In order to …


Prelude To A Master Plan: Ware, Massachusetts, Belen Alfaro, Bruno Carneiro, Margaret Engesser, Kathryn E. Fox, Evadne R. Friedman, Timothy Inacio, Anita Lockesmith, Christina Mills, Stephanie Molden, Meagen Mulherin, Russell Pandres, Vinicius Pereira, Brian Reid, Pedro Soto, Jennifer Stromsten Oct 2012

Prelude To A Master Plan: Ware, Massachusetts, Belen Alfaro, Bruno Carneiro, Margaret Engesser, Kathryn E. Fox, Evadne R. Friedman, Timothy Inacio, Anita Lockesmith, Christina Mills, Stephanie Molden, Meagen Mulherin, Russell Pandres, Vinicius Pereira, Brian Reid, Pedro Soto, Jennifer Stromsten

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity

Prelude to a Master Plan offers ideas, recommendations, and a toolkit to help the town chart its own path towards that future. While the teams and individual students worked to ‘drill down’ into specific topic areas, the Studio defined three basic areas in order to think about how the various assets, challenges and ideas undermine or reinforce one another. The report is loosely organized in those terms: addressing the outlying rural areas and issues specific to these places, considering one of the key growth areas that has extended from town and the conflicts that arise from the many uses occurring …